Luxembourg will recognise the State of Palestine

Luxembourg plans to admit a Palestinian state adjacent week connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly successful New York.

Arriving astatine an EU gathering successful Brussels today, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel confirmed statements made yesterday (Monday) by Prime Minister Luc Frieden aft a closed-door gathering with members of the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Betel and Frieden criticized some Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian radical Hamas, accusing them of opposing the two-state solution.

Nevertheless, “we are convinced that the two-state solution tin bring lasting bid to the region,” Frieden said.

“This volition not hap overnight,” but determination is simply a question that demonstrates that this solution “is inactive relevant,” the Luxembourg premier curate assessed.

“That is wherefore the Luxembourg authorities intends to articulation those who volition recognise the authorities of Palestine (…) adjacent week,” helium concluded.

After France and Saudi Arabia, which drafted the text, respective countries person announced their volition to recognise the authorities of Palestine adjacent week connected the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.

The process is seen arsenic a means of putting further unit connected Israel to extremity the warfare successful Gaza.

This “New York Declaration”, already supported by a bulk of UN subordinate states, besides calls for “an extremity to the warfare successful Gaza” and “a just, peaceful and lasting colony of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based connected the effectual implementation of the two-state solution”.

The declaration is rejected by some Israel and the US.