This Friday, the PSD accused the PS of bringing “the worst of the internal political struggle” into foreign policy and regretted that the Socialists joined the “most radical positions” of the BE in a vote that considers it to have used António Guterres as a tool.
The coordinator of the PS at the Foreign Affairs Commission, Paulo Pisco, this Friday found it incomprehensible that the PSD voted on Thursday against a text of solidarity from the BE to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, and another from the PS. and BU deputies, as a sign of solidarity with the UN, call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Both votes, submitted in late October, were approved at Thursday’s meeting of that committee by PS and BE, with dissenting votes coming from PSD and Chegoy.
In a conversation with Lusa, the PSD coordinator in the Foreign Affairs Commission, Thiago Moreira de Sá, accused the PS of bringing “the worst of the internal political struggle” into foreign policy, recalling that both parties even reached consensus on a common text of condemnation. about the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel on October 7, which emphasized that this country has the right to defend itself “within the framework of international law.”
“I deeply regret that the PS now wants to politicize an issue that should go beyond the logic of party politics,” criticized the Social Democratic MP.
The SDP, he explained, announced at Thursday’s meeting that it would vote against these texts and submit a declaration of vote.
“Firstly, because he believes that the issue is closed and that it is not beneficial for anyone, least of all the UN Secretary-General, to resurrect an issue that he himself has explained and explained well,” he said, referring to the controversy. this included statements by António Guterres when he said Hamas attacks “did not occur in a vacuum.”
On the other hand, he added, the SDP does not accept “playing into the hands of certain leftists who want to use the UN Secretary General in the internal political struggle.”
“Thirdly, because the text in its explanatory part is absolutely radical, and I regret that the PS adheres – through a kind of foreign policy accommodation – to the most radical positions of BE,” he criticized.
Thiago Moreira de Sá warned that the entire explanatory part of the vote “is radical and does not correspond to the position of the Portuguese state,” the text of an “anti-Israel party.”
The vote of solidarity with the United Nations Secretary-General was submitted to BE at the end of October, and in its operative part it demonstrates solidarity with António Guterres “rejecting the attacks he has suffered from Israel and stresses the need for a ceasefire in the region, access to humanitarian assistance and condemnation of war crimes.”
The explanatory text states that “war crimes are war crimes and should be treated as such wherever they occur.”
“The Israeli offensive has already claimed the lives of 6,500 people in the Gaza Strip, 62% of whom are women and children. Forty UN agency facilities for Palestine were damaged and 35 of its staff were killed. […] The civilian population cannot be targeted by the Israeli army, nor can collective punishment of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip be accepted for the barbaric October 7 attacks carried out by Hamas,” the text reads.
The second vote, signed by MPs PS and BE and also held at the end of October, expresses solidarity with the UN call for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and condemns “absolutely and unequivocally the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas in Israel on October 7.” “
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Source: CM Jornal
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