Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that France could recognise a Palestinian state at an upcoming UN conference, adding that in turn some countries in the Middle East could recognise the state of Israel.
The Palestinian Authority welcomed “a step in the right direction”.
“We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron, who this week visited Egypt, told France 5 television.
“Our aim is to chair this conference with Saudi Arabia in June, where we could finalise this movement of mutual recognition (of a Palestinian state) by several parties,” he added.
“I will do it (…) because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to participate in a collective dynamic – which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognise Israel in turn, which many of them do not do,” he added.
