{"id":308489,"date":"2025-07-30T16:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=308489"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:39:55","slug":"france-14-other-nations-urge-recognition-of-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=308489","title":{"rendered":"France, 14 other Nations urge recognition of Palestinian State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/assets\/news_photos\/2025\/07\/30\/image-297166-1753861760.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NEW YORK, July 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France&#8217;s top diplomat said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign ministers of 15 countries late Tuesday issued a joint statement following a conference in New York, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, aimed at reviving a two-state solution between Israelis and the Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In New York, together with 14 other countries, France is issuing a collective appeal: we express our desire to recognise the State of Palestine and invite those who have not yet done so to join us,&#8221; French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron announced last week he would formally recognise Palestinian statehood in September, provoking strong opposition from Israel and the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France is hoping to build a momentum around the formal recognition of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the UK will formally recognise the State of Palestine in September unless Israel takes various &#8220;substantive steps&#8221;, including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starmer&#8217;s move, paired with Paris, would make the two European allies the first G7 nations to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the statement, 15 nations including Spain, Norway, and Finland affirmed their &#8220;unwavering commitment to the vision of the two-state solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine of the signatories which have not yet recognised the Palestinian state expressed &#8220;the willingness or the positive consideration of their countries&#8221; to do so, including Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seventeen countries plus the European Union and Arab League during the conference joined calls for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK, July 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; France and 14 other Western nations called on countries worldwide to move to recognise a Palestinian state, France&#8217;s top diplomat said Wednesday. The foreign ministers of 15 countries late Tuesday issued a joint statement following a conference in New York, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, aimed at reviving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":308490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,208,215,209,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308491,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308489\/revisions\/308491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}