Sánchez rejects Spain’s participation in the Peace Board promoted by Trump for being “outside the UN framework”

Thus, after “considering it for weeks”, he joins the denials from countries such as France, the United Kingdom and Norway. Base this decision on coherence with the policy that has been deployed the Government regarding the future of the Palestinians and the commitment to the multilateral order, the United Nations system and International Law.

Sánchez made this announcement in statements offered after the extraordinary meeting of the Twenty-Seven to analyze the intentions of the American magnate regarding Greenland. A press conference that the president took advantage of to urge Trump to have a face-to-face meeting to explain Spain’s defense spending plan.

The so-called Peace Board refers to the proposal presented this Thursday by the president of the United States at the Davos Forum, initially conceived to supervise his peace plan for Gaza and which he now wants to expand to other global conflicts, in which the strong men of the Trump Administration will participate along with different global leaders such as Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Javier Milei or Viktor Orbán.

“We appreciate the invitationbut we decline to participate in that Board proposed by the US Administration,” Sánchez stressed before making emphasize that “the future of Palestine must be resolved by the Palestinians, as well as peaceful coexistence with Israel in a dialogue process that implements the two-state solution, allows the entry of humanitarian aid and guarantees peace between both countries.

The President of the Government has assured that Spain will continue working and committing to a peace process that it has been seeking for “30 years together with many other European partners and the rest of the international community.” In the same way, it will continue to commit to guaranteeing humanitarian aid, reconstruction, stabilization and security of Israel and Palestine.

About defense spending

This same Thursday, Trump has once again attacked Spain, considering it to be “a freeloader” who is “going it alone”, in reference to the NATO agreement to increase defense spending up to 5%. “I don’t know what is happening with Spain. We’re going to have to sit down and talk to them.“, lamented the tenant of the White House.

In response, Sánchez has shown himself open to having this face-to-face meeting to explain his spending plan to the US president. In fact, he assured that he would be “delighted” for this meeting to take place: “When have I had any problems? On the contrary, always delighted.”

The Head of the Executive has stressed that Spain has tripled its investment in Defense since he has been at the head of the Government and allocates to this area 34,000 million euros per year of the taxes of all Spaniards, a figure that, he claims, is more than that of thirteen NATO countries combined.

“There are the figures,” insisted Sánchez, who has guaranteed total loyalty to NATO without this implying having to give up strengthening public health, education, dependency aid, development aid or cooperation with third countries.