White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday the Trump administration would welcome dialogue between Spain and Catalonia’s leaders on the region’s political future.

“That’s up for the people of Spain and Catalonia to decide,” Sanders said at the daily White House press briefing, shortly after Catalonia’s secessionist president Carles Puigdemont said he would seek dialogue and international mediation rather than an immediate declaration of independence.

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