Australia will recognize the state of Palestine
Canberra will recognize the State of Palestine on the occasion of the UN General Assembly in September, the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday. “A solution to two states is the best hope for humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and lead to an end of conflict and sufferings” In Gaza, said the Labor Government to the press, in Canberra, adding: “Australia will recognize the right of the Palestinian people to its own state. »»
The war in the Gaza Strip, launched following the unprecedented attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023, rekindled the inclinations to recognize the State of Palestine. International pressures on the Israeli government is increasing, in order to find an outcome to the conflict, which led to a serious humanitarian crisis in the besieged Palestinian enclave. Violence in the West Bank, Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, have also intensified since the start of the war in Gaza.
In total, three -quarters of the UN member states recognize the State of Palestine, proclaimed by the Palestinian management in exile in the late 1980s. This diplomatic act was carried out by a dozen countries since the start of the war in Gaza.
At the end of July, Australia and 14 other Western countries, including France and Canada, had ” guest “ The international community to recognize a State of Palestine, after a ministerial conference at the UN for a solution to two states in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mr. Albanese says he has received guarantees from the Palestinian authority, so that“No place [ne soit donnée] to Hamas terrorists in any future Palestinian state ».