3 minutes agoMacro announces recognition of Palestinian state in coming months
Periskopi(a year ago)
(a year ago)French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France plans to recognise Palestine as a state in June this year. in an interview for France 5 television on Wednesday, he said he was aiming to finalise this at a UN conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which his country will co-chair with Arabia [...]
We should go towards recognition and do this in the coming months. I'm not doing it to please anyone. I will because at some point it will be fair”, Macron said, follow up. A2 CNN, broadcast Periscope.
For the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Palestine, Varsen Agabbekian Sahin, France's recognition would be a “step in the right direction in line with the protection of Palestinian people's rights and two-state resolution”.
But Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said any “unilateral recognition” of a Palestinian state would be a “drive for Hamas”.
A unilateral recognition of an imaginary Palestinian state, from every country, in the reality that we all know, will be a price for terror and an incentive for Hamas. These kinds of actions will not bring about peace, security and stability in our region, but the opposite: they only drive them away”, he wrote on X
Palestine has been recognised as a sovereign state from 146 countries from 193 UN members so far, with Armenia, Slovenia, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados joining their ranks last year.
However, despite increasing international support for Palestinian citizenship, several major Western countries such as the United States, Australia, the UK and Germany have refused recognition
Macron said he predicted a <x0-dynamic collective”, enabling some countries in the Middle East to recognise the Israeli state as well.
Countries that do not recognise Israel include Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Macron said that recognition of Palestine as a state would allow France “to be clear in our fight against those who deny Israel's right to exist, such as the case with Iran, and engage in collective security in the region”.
France has long defended a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, continuing its policy following the October 7th 2023 attack by the Palestinian armed group Hamas against Israel.
But formal recognition by Paris and a Palestinian state would mark a major political change and would amend Israel, which insists such movements by foreign states are premature.
On a recent trip to Egypt, Macron held talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Asi and Jordan King Abdullah II, making it clear that he was strongly opposed to any shift or annexation in Israel's occupied Gaza and West Coast. /Periscope/
