Palestine – Strong and coordinated speech. At the end of a ministerial conference in the United Nations for a solution to two states at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday, July 29, 15 countries of which France launched a “Collective call” Inviting countries around the world to express their desire 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”reaffirmed the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot on X this Wednesday, July 30, the day after this “Apple the New York”.
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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.
A recognition scheduled for September for France
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday announced that the United Kingdom would recognize Palestine if Israel does not take certain measures.
Last Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron had announced that France would officially recognize a state of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
This call from the 15 countries was launched publicly at the end of a conference held on Monday and Tuesday in New York, on the initiative of France and Saudi Arabia which are trying to keep the two-state solution alive to get out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a hypothesis abused 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.
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