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Australia will recognize the Palestinian state in September, announced Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.M. Albanese said on Monday that his government would officially announce this decision at the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (AGNU) in New York. “A two-state solution is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and end the conflict, sufferings and famine in Gaza,” Albanese said at a press conference in Canberra.
The announcement of Australia comes when Canada, France and the United Kingdom are preparing to officially recognize Palestine at the meeting next month, thus joining the vast majority of UN member states. It also occurs about a week after hundreds of thousands of Australians paraded on the bridge of the port of Sydney to protest the war waged by Israel in the Gaza. In the aftermath of the demonstration, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong told Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that “there is a risk that there is no more Palestine to recognize”. “As far as recognition is concerned, I have been saying it for more than a year now, the question is not whether it will happen, but when,” added Ms. Wong.
The Liberal Party, in the opposition, criticized this decision, claiming that it was disagreement with the United States, its closest ally, and that it overturned the bipartite consensus according to which there should be no recognition as long as Hamas remained in power in Gaza. “Despite its words today, the reality is that Anthony Albanese committed Australia to recognize Palestine Returned in tunnels under Gaza and that Hamas still controls the population of Gaza.
Nothing he said today changes this fact, “said Sussan Ley’s Liberal Party in a statement.” Recognizing a Palestinian state before hostages and Hamas defeat, as the government has done today, risks allowing Hamas to achieve one of its strategic objectives, namely the terrible terrorist attacks of October 7. “The Australian Greens, the fourth party in Parliament, welcomed the decision to recognize Palestine, but said that this announcement did not respond” to the massive calls from the Australian public asking the government to take concrete measures “.” Millions of Australians came down to the street, including 300,000 in Sydney just last weekend, to claim sanctions and the end of arms trade with Israel. The Albanese government continues to ignore this call, “said senator David Shoebridge, party spokesman for foreign affairs, in a statement.
The Australian Defense Network of Palestine (APAN) has also criticized this announcement, calling it “political vine sheet, allowing the Israeli genocide and apartheid to continue without dispute and diverting the attention of the complicity of Australia in Israeli war crimes through the continuous trade of weapons and components”. ” can grant them. They do not depend on negotiations with their colonial oppressors, nor their behavior or approval, “said the APAN in a press release. According to Australia’s decision to recognize the Palestinians’ right will be” based on the commitments made by the Palestinian Authority (AP) towards Australia “. The AD that it “recognizes the right of Israel to exist in peace and security” and its commitment to “demilitarize and organize general elections,” said Albanese, announcing this decision.
The AP is a director who supervises certain parts of the West Bank occupied by Israel since the mid -1990s. It has not organized any legislative elections since 2006 and has been criticized by some Palestinians for having helped Israel maintain strict control over the inhabitants of West Bank. Albanese said that the commitments obtained by Australia constituted “an opportunity to allow the Palestinian people to authorize themselves in a manner that isolates Hamas, the disarma and the definitively hunting of the region”. Hamas has been in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007, when he waged a brief war against the forces faithful to the President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas.
New Zealand will decide on recognition next month by the next month, the New Zealander Minister for Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, said on Monday that the government of his country would make an official decision on the recognition of the Palestinian State in September. “Some of the partners close to New Zealand have chosen to recognize the Palestinian state, others not,” said Peters in a press release. Account, New Zealand carries out an independent foreign policy and, on this question, we intend to carefully examine the situation, then act in accordance with the principles, values and national interests of New Zealand. »M. Peters said that if New Zealand has considered the recognition of a Palestinian state for some time as a “question of when, and not if”, the question was not “simple” or “clear”. “There is a wide range of well-stopped opinions within our government, our parliament and, in fact, the New Zealand society on the question of the recognition of a Palestinian state,” he said. It is normal that this complex question is approached with calm, prudence and discernment.
During the next month, we are delighted to examine this wide range of opinions before submitting a proposal to the cabinet. “Of the 193 UN Member States, 147 already recognize the Palestinian State, which represents about three -quarters of the countries of the world and the vast majority of its population. In the context of its 1947 Palestine partition plan, the United Nations General Assembly said that it would grant 45 % of the Arab state to an Arab state, but that has never been materialized.