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January 31st, 2016 
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nsnbc : French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Friday, that France supports a new round of Israeli – Palestinian talks. Fabius added that France was ready to recognize Palestine within weeks if the initiative to restart talks about the implementation of a two-State solution fails.
The AFP news agency quotes Fabius as saying: “In the coming weeks, France will take… steps in order to organize an international conference gathering each of the parties’ principle partners – principally Americans, Europeans and Arabs — in order to preserve and to bring about the two-state solution.”
Fabius underpinned that France was ready to unilaterally recognize Palestine within weeks if “the last-ditch attempt at reaching a negotiated solution hits a stumbling block.” Fabius stressed that the peace process and the two-State solution should not be allowed to fall apart.
In 2015 Fabius said that continued Israeli settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian West Bank is damaging the chances of a final deal. In late January 2016, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu vowed more support for settlements.
Amy Maguire, Senior Lecturer in International Law at the University of Newcastle recently published an article entitled “Israel’s land grab undermines Palestinian statehood – and violates international law”. Maguire details how the Israeli occupation and the so-called security wall violate Palestinian’s right to self-determination, as well as international and humanitarian law.
Dr. Saeb Erekat, Secretary-General of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), issued a press release in response to Fabius’ statement. Erekat welcomed the French government’s “call for an inclusive and serious international involvement towards ending the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and the full realization of a free, independent and sovereign State of Palestine on the 1967 borders.”
F/AK – nsnbc 31.01.2016
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2016/01/31/france-to-recognize-palestine-if-talks-on-two-state-solution-fail/
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