France and 14 countries, including Canada and Australia, “Invite” The countries of the world to express their will to recognize a state of Palestine. “In New York with 14 other countries, France is launching a collective call: we express our desire to Recognize the State of Palestine and invite those who have not yet done it to join us ”, wrote the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot on X, the day after this “Apple the New York” Launched at the end of a ministerial conference in the United Nations for a solution to two states at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In addition to France, two G20 members, Canada and Australia, are part of the call. The other signatory countries are: Andorra, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Saint-Marin, Slovenia and Spain. Nine of them who have not yet recognized the Palestinian state “Express the will or positive consideration of their country” To do so: Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Portugal and Saint-Marin.
This call from the 15 countries was launched publicly at the end of a ministerial conference held on Monday and Tuesday in New York, on the initiative of France and Saudi Arabia which are trying to keep the solution to two states in life to get out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a hypothesis battered by the current war in Gaza and colonization in the West Bank. During this conference, several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, called Hamas to put its arms to the Palestinian Authority.