According to the daily Al-Arabby al-Jadeed, the Palestinian management would seriously plan to transform the Palestinian authority into a state and to announce it unilaterally at the next United Nations General Assembly, scheduled for September 2025 in New York.
A Palestinian leader, quoted by the newspaper under the cover of anonymity, said that President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) could make this declaration at the international conference to be held on the sidelines of the General Assembly.
This initiative would be preceded by the publication of a constitutional declaration of the Palestinian presidency, fixing the borders, the nature, the content and the constitutional principles of the State, pending the official adoption of a Palestinian Constitution.
The project would also include setting a date for elections to the Palestinian National Council, a legislative body of the Palestine Liberation Organization (OLP).
Almost 32 years after the signing of the Oslo agreements, this approach appears above all as a symbolic political gesture, in the absence of a national consensus. It would intervene in a context of increased tensions with Israel and blocking the peace process. According to the cited source, the Palestinian presidency wishes, by this declaration, to reaffirm the Palestinian national rights and to set a clear political and legal framework for the future.
