US EditionMeloni: Early Recognition of Palestine Is ’Counterproductive’
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Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that Paris would recognize the State of Palestine at the General Assembly of the United Nations on 21 September.
The statements of the French President, Emmanuel Macron, where he pointed out that France will formally recognize the Palestinian State in September before the UN General Assembly, have provoked a wave of questions.Now he joins the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, who this Saturday commented that “the recognition of the State of Palestine, without there being a State of Palestine, can be even counterproductive.” “I have told the Palestini…
Meloni: Early recognition of Palestine is ’counterproductive’
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Saturday that recognising the State of Palestine before it is established could be counterproductive. "I am very much in favour of the State of Palestine but I am not in favour of recognising it prior to establishing it," Meloni told Italian daily La Repubblica. "If something that doesn't exist is recognised on paper, the problem could appear to be solved when it isn't," Meloni added. France's decisi…
France's announcement is subject to international criticism. According to Meloni, recognition of the state prior to its founding would not solve the problem.
Italy will not follow the French decision to recognize Palestine as an independent state as it stands now, the country's Prime Minister Georgia Meloni tells the newspaper La Repubblica.
France is the first leading industrial nation of the G7 to take the path of recognition of Palestine.
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