Madrid – Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, has reaffirmed his country’s determination to further develop its relations with Morocco in all areas.

“Our objective is to continue to make progress in our economic relations, to strengthen cooperation in areas such as the fight against terrorism and the mafias that traffic in human beings, and to increase the cultural and educational exchanges nourishing relations between our two countries,” Albares told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Congress of Deputies on Monday.

‘Morocco is a neighboring country with which we share human and economic ties”, noted the Spanish senior official, emphasizing the importance of Morocco, a “friendly country”, for Spain.

‘For all these reasons, I opted for Morocco as the destination for my first official trip of this legislature”, stressed Albares, recalling the importance of the meetings held during this visit.

Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse

ROME: The first batch of 11 wounded children accompanied by family members from the war-torn Gaza arrived in Rome, Italy, to receive further medical treatment in Italian hospitals.

Ambassador of the State of Palestine to Italy, Abeer Odeh, stressed that this humanitarian initiative by Italy, which offered treatment to over one hundred Palestinian children in Italian hospitals, should be coupled with effective measures and adequate political positions, including demanding Israel to stop its genocide against Palestinians immediately and recognizing the state of Palestine.

The number of wounded in the Gaza Strip has exceeded 67 thousand, which proves the savagery of the Israeli occupation, she stressed.

The brutal aggression on Gaza has left only 14 of 36 hospitals in Gaza partially functional, including nine in the south and six others in the north.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency