Norway will announce today that its government plans to recognize the state of Palestine based on the 1967 borders and international law.
Norway’s government will announce today that it recognises an independent Palestinian state, public broadcaster NRK and daily Aftenposten have reported, citing unnamed sources.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is also expected to announce Spain’s formal recognition of the state of Palestine in less than a week as well.
Speaking in the Spanish parliament, Pedro Sanchez has said that his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is putting the two-state solution in “danger” with his policy of “pain and destruction” in Gaza.
“Next Tuesday, May 28, Spain’s cabinet will approve the recognition of the Palestinian state,” the Spanish prime minister said.
Meanwhile, Ireland will join these other European countries to formalize its recognition of an independent state of Palestine next week.
In a video shared on social media, Irish foreign minister Micheal Martin says his country has laid out its “unambiguous support for the equal right to security, dignity, and self-determination for the Palestinian and Israeli peoples”.
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Slovenia is another EU country expected to recognize Palestine and the country will coordinate with Ireland and Spain to persuade other EU-member countries to recognize Palestine and try to get the whole bloc to recognize Palestine to jump start the two-state peace process after a permanent ceasefire in Gaza is agreed to. Malta and Belgium are also rumored to follow their EU counterparts and recognize the state of Palestine sometime soon.
Norway is not a member of the EU, but the country along with Sweden are expected to lobby other members of the Nordic Council, which includes some members of the EU, to join the other the European countries in formally recognizing Palestine. All of these countries are also members of NATO, except for Ireland and Malta.
By the end of next week, the state of Palestine will be formally recognized by at least 150 member states of the United Nations.
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