Albanese will arrive in Madrid at the invitation of Manu Pineda, MEP from Izquierda Unida (IU), to carry out an intensive program of events and meetings related to the current situation of the Palestinian people.
The UN rapporteur will take part in a key event next Thursday, January 18, together with Pineda, who is also chairman of the European Parliament's delegation for relations with Palestine.
Under the motto “Palestine, the right to exist”, the event will include Albanese and Pineda, as well as the Minister of Youth and Children, Sira Rego, and the director of the newspaper “Público”, Virginia Pérez Alonso.
According to Manu Pineda, the high-level visitor will hold various meetings with various social and political organizations to exchange their demands and convey to the authorities and NGOs the need to take concrete measures to “put an end to the horror that is being experienced to set”. Gaza.” .
He will also hold a meeting with top Palestinian embassy officials here amid the debate over Spain's diplomatic recognition of the Palestinian state.
In addition, Albanece will speak with the Secretary General of the Workers' Commissions (CCOO), Unai Sordo, as well as representatives of the Jewish community and the solidarity movement with Palestine.
He will also speak to representatives of various formations in the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
Pineda described Albanese's visit to Spain as transcendental, noting that “an unprecedented solidarity movement is taking place, which is not yet reflected in further pressure measures to put an end to the massacre that Palestinians have suffered under the longest occupation in modern history. “in Gaza.”
It will serve to examine the tragic reality of what is happening in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, not just since October 7, but during decades of unjust and dramatic occupation, he said.
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