France and 14 other Western states appeal to other countries in the world to express their desire to recognize Palestine.
France’s foreign ministers and 14 other Western states appeal to other countries in the world so that they in turn express their “will” to recognize Palestine.
The joint declaration is signed by the chiefs of diplomacy of Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Saint-Marin, Slovenia and Spain.
Nine of these ministers have not so far recognized the Palestinian state but “express the will or positive consideration of their country” to do so: Andorra, Australia, Canada, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, New Zealand, Portugal and Saint-Marin.
Two -state solution
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced that the United Kingdom would recognize Palestine if Israel does not take certain measures “to end the appalling situation in Gaza”.
Last Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron had announced that France would officially recognize a Palestine State at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
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 the colonizations 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.
