It is almost a sign of his third term or government, understanding that there was one first after the motion of censure in 2018 to Mariano Rajoy who opened to power and a second, that of the coalition with Podemos between 2020 and 2023. … Now, in the period marked by the coalition with adding and by the unstable and at times turbulent parliamentary support of Carles Puigdemont, Pedro Sánchez plays more and more his buzas in international politics, perhaps making the need virtuegiven the precarious domestic situation.
He did it in 2023, during his turn as a rotary president of the European Union Council, when he promoted the historical recognition of Palestine as a state that Spain and some European allies (none of the large EU countries) carried out last year. And now tries to the thread of the other great conflict that afflicts the West, that of Ukraine. Precisely this week, marked by Donald Trump’s maneuver to start some Peace conversations Through paths called Vladimir Putin and, secondly, Volodimir Zelenski, the chief of the Executive has begun to move.
As soon as last Thursday, just twenty -four hours after the president of the United States announced his contacts, Sánchez He received a phone call from Zelenskiwith which he has locked a close relationship in the last three years, since the invasion by Russia of his country. The leader of the PSOE Nor hesitated to advertise the conversation In social networks, where he explained that he had transferred to the Ukrainian president «all my support in the defense of the sovereignty of his country against illegal aggression, unfair and unjustified of Russia».
Sanchez also proclaimed sharply that «Ukraine can continue counting on Spain“, And said that this support” goes beyond words, as we have demonstrated in these last three years. ”
Although not only the president of the Government spoke, as he has legitimacy for this, in the name of our country, but also of Europe that, he said, will continue to support Ukraine’s aspiration to a just and lasting peace. Ukraine wants peace and Europe wants peace. However, an unfair war cannot end an unfair peace agreement, ”he said.
During that call, according to Moncloa, both leaders valued the bilateral security agreement signed last year, during Zelenski’s visit to Madrid in May, which has A validity of a decade. On that occasion, in addition, an aid of one billion euros was announced in weapons for Ukraine that had been hidden from Congress and even the Council of Ministers, a maneuver whose «opacity»He reported to add the coalition partner. The message in which both agreed is, according to official sources, that «Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraineand nothing about the security structure in Europe without the European Union ».
Sánchez, in addition, valued during the call the joint statement of the G5+, composed of Spain, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, the United Kingdom, the European Commission and the High Representative for Foreign Policy -a charge that since 2024 occupies the former former Prime Minister of Estonia, Kaja Kallas- In addition to the Ukraine itself, a document in which this week was advocated by «Place Ukraine in a position of force», And because both kyiv and Brussels are part of the eventual peace negotiation process after three years of conflict.
Precisely what in the eyes of many observers would be putting Trump at risk with his first instance approach to Putin, in a maneuver that the brand new secretary general of NATO, former Prime Minister of Netherlands Mark Rutte, He has endorsed During the Meeting of Defense Ministers of the Atlantic Alliance also held this week.
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Sánchez’s political collusion with Zelenski It soon set After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of the year 2022. Already in the spring of that year there was the first visit to kyiv, in the most raw of the beginning of the war conflict, of the president of the Spanish Government, who then intervened in an excited speech Before the Ukrainian Parliament, which cheered him standing. On the first anniversary of the invasion, in February 2023, He repeated the visit.
The extended rumor then, when more adverse surveys for the PSOE in that election year, it was that Sanchez would be looking for an international position of relevance after his stage in the presidency, and the command of the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg in front of NATO I was about to run out. Although the speculation also pointed to the presidency of the European Council after the European elections of May, a position that finally fell to the former Portuguese prime minister, also socialist, António Costa. Sanchez He denied angrily That this was his intention at a press conference in Moncloa in June 2023 with his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson.
Already in the second semester of that 2023, and coinciding with the Presidency of the Spanish Turn of the EU Council, Sanchez continued intensifying His support for Zelenskiwho first stepped on our country on the first days of October, when by surprise he appeared in Granada to participate in the European summit that always organizes in its territory The country that holds the rotary presidency.
Last month both agreed again in the Davos forum (Switzerland), where they talked about the eventual Ukrainian adhesion process to the EU. As for the possible integration of kyiv in NATO, Sanchez has never been so clear, and has even admitted that “the conditions may not occur”, although he has not ruled out as A future possibility For the former Soviet Republic.
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