This Wednesday, May 22, Spain, Norway and Ireland announced that they will recognize Palestine as a State on May 28.
In this way, the Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr StøreHe reported that “There can be no peace in the Middle East without Israel and Palestine having their own State, it is the only real solution to the conflict“, the above in a press conference in Oslo Støre, in which he defended that the division between the two should be based on the borders prior to June 1967.
Today is a historic day for Ireland and Palestine
“Today is a historic day for Ireland and Palestine,” declared the head of the Dublin Government along with his two partners in the coalition of Christian Democrats, centrists and Greens.
Harris hoped that more countries will join the decision taken by Ireland, Spain and Norway in the coming weeks to do “the right thing.”
The ‘taoiseach’ (Prime Minister in Gaelic) explained that Ireland recognizes Palestine as a State because he believes “in freedom and justice as fundamental principles of international law.”
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Sánchez revealed the date of this approval in his appearance before the plenary session of Congress called to report, among other matters, on his contacts with other leaders to gather support for the recognition of Palestine, and in which he said that he assumes the consequences that this decision may have.
The head of the Spanish Executive explained that That decision was agreed between the two partners of the Government (the socialist party and the left-wing group Sumar) and echoing the majority sentiments of Spanish citizens.
And he insisted that “this recognition is not against anyone,” “it is not against the people of Israel (…) and much less against the Jews,” whom he described as “an admirable people.”
EFE
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