ANTONIO Guterres, the UN secretary general, once again categorically said that the recognition of the statehood of Palestine was not a reward or favour to the Palestinian people, but a right they deserved. The UN secretary general has maintained this position from the beginning. French president Immanuel Macron and British prime minister Keir Starmer last week...
French President Emmanuel Macron recognised a Palestinian state at the United Nations on Monday, 聽spurring a wave of Western moves to defy Israel in making the landmark -- if symbolic -- move.
France and other countries prepared to recognise a Palestinian state as the UN鈥檚 centrepiece diplomatic week got underway Monday, following a rash of Western governments in symbolically endorsing statehood and sparking Israel鈥檚 wrath.
Portugal will officially recognise a Palestinian state on Sunday, Lisbon鈥檚 foreign ministry said on Friday, ahead of a UN General Assembly where around 10 other countries are set to follow suit.
Finland鈥檚 president Alexander Stubb has said he is ready to approve a recognition of a Palestinian state if the government moves forward with such a proposal.
Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, prime minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, a major policy shift that drew an angry response from US president Donald Trump and was rejected by Israel.
France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France鈥檚 top diplomat said Wednesday...
France defended its decision to recognise Palestinian statehood amid domestic and international criticism on Friday, including against the charge that the move plays into the hands of militant group Hamas.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 vehement opposition to a Palestinian state aligns perfectly with a long-standing Zionist ideology that has consistently viewed the establishment of a Palestinian state as a direct threat to Israel鈥檚 very foundation as a settler colonial project...
France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, president Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast Wednesday.
ISRAEL鈥橲 war on Gaza has gone on for more than nine months, following the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023. A Palestinian territory that has been under Israeli occupation since 1967, Gaza, along with Israel and the Palestinian territories of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, it is about the same distance away from Europe...
RECENTLY, calls for the western world to recognise a Palestinian state in its own right have been getting louder...
Israel reacted with fury after three European countries said on Wednesday they would recognise a Palestinian state, more than seven months into the devastating Gaza war...
Ireland is certain to recognise Palestinian statehood by the end of May, the country鈥檚 foreign minister Micheal Martin said on Wednesday, without specifying a date...
Bangladesh Chhatra League, student wing of the ruling Awami League, on Monday, held protest rally and procession, expressing solidarity with the ongoing global student movement, advocating for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...
Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student wing of the ruling Awami League, will hold processions across the country expressing solidarity with the ongoing global student movement and demanding for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state...
