The foreign ministers of France and another 14 Western states appeal to other countries in the world so that they in turn express their “will” to recognize Palestine.
The joint statement is signed by the heads 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 -states solution
The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced Tuesday that the United Kingdom would recognize Palestine if Israel does not take certain measures “to end the terrible situation in Gaza.”
Last Thursday, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, had announced that France would officially recognize a state of Palestine in the United Nations General Assembly in September.
This call from the 15 countries was publicly launched at the end of a ministerial conference held on Monday and Tuesday in New York, at the initiative of Saudi France and Arabia that are trying to maintain the solution to two states in life to get out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a hypothesis hit by the current war in Gaza and the colonizations on the west shore.
During this conference, several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Egypt, called Hamas to put their weapons to the Palestinian authority.
Source: BFM TV
