{"id":117842,"date":"2025-05-20T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117842\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T19:27:12","slug":"france-says-determined-to-recognize-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/117842\/","title":{"rendered":"France says &#8216;determined&#8217; to recognize Palestinian state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">France is &#8220;determined&#8221; to recognize a Palestinian state, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning Israel for the &#8220;indefensible&#8221; situation in Gaza created by its military campaign and humanitarian blockade, Al Monitor reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot also reaffirmed that Paris backed a Netherlands-led initiative for a review of the cooperation agreement between the European Union and Israel, which could affect political and economic ties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">President Emmanuel Macron has left open the possibility that France could become the latest European nation to recognize a Palestinian state at a UN conference in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&#8220;We cannot leave the children of Gaza a legacy of violence and hatred. So all this must stop, and that&#8217;s why we are determined to recognize a Palestinian state,&#8221; Barrot told France Inter radio.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&#8220;And I am actively working towards this, because we want to contribute to a political solution in the interest of the Palestinians but also for the security of Israel,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France is &#8220;determined&#8221; to recognize a Palestinian state, its foreign minister said on Tuesday, condemning Israel for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,837,1814],"class_list":{"0":"post-117842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-palestine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114541811666347591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}