Shukri calls for the need for international parties to recognize the Palestinian state
Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri called for the need for international parties to recognize the Palestinian state, stressing that the two-state solution is the only way to ensure peace between Palestinians and Israelis, prevent the conflict from escalating, and establish stability and coexistence among the peoples of the region.
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This came during the Foreign Minister’s participation today, Monday, in the coordination ministerial meeting of a number of Arab and European countries and the League of Arab States, to discuss the necessary moves to support efforts to implement the two-state solution and recognize the Palestinian state, on the sidelines of participation in the World Economic Forum meetings held in Riyadh.
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman and director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Minister Shukri reiterated during the meeting the need for the international community to move seriously to work to end the long-term Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and to support the people. Palestinians to obtain their legitimate, inalienable rights.
He noted that the current delicate circumstance that the Palestinian issue is going through, in light of the Israeli war on Gaza and the increasing tension in the West Bank, necessitates international parties to carry out their legal and humanitarian responsibilities to find the horizon. Serious political action to establish a two-state solution and a just and comprehensive peace in the region.
Ambassador Abu Zeid added that Minister Shukri stressed that the continuation of the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories would only result in an increase in the vicious circles of violence, and that the option Peace is the most appropriate, stressing Egypt’s firm commitment to supporting the rights of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and to live side by side with Israel.
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