EU Council agrees to Spain's Middle East peace conference proposal

MADRID - The Council of the European Union has accepted the Spanish proposal to hold a peace conference in about six months on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday.In a meeting of the bloc's 27 governments, Spain had pressed for the EU to demand an immediate ceasefire, but the language was opposed by some countries, Sanchez told a news conference in Brussels.

He said that instead, the member states agreed to call for"humanitarian pauses" and the opening of aid corridors for the Gaza civilians, as a way to reach a consensus. In exchange for the compromise, the bloc accepted Madrid's peace conference proposal, which includes a renewed push for the two-state solution to the conflict, Sanchez said.

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