France is ready to be placed at the forefront of the growing European trend in
favor of the recognition of a Palestinian State. Before the increase in violence
in the area and the stagnation of the israeli-palestinian negotiations, the
socialist MEPS discussed on Wednesday a draft resolution in the "invited" to the
French Government to recognize Palestine as a State own, "with a view to
achieving a final settlement of the conflict", given that the current situation
"is unsustainable and dangerous".
Before reaching this conclusion, the text is on the record as "threats" that
weigh on the solution of the two States - pending since the Oslo accords of
1993- "illegal and especially the continuity of the colonization of the
Palestinian territories, which undermines the viability of a Palestinian State".
The resulting text will have the best chances to be approved. And not only by
being the work of the party in the Government, which has a majority in the lower
house. Has been promoted and written by Elisabeth Guigou, president of the
Foreign Affairs Committee and minister on two occasions. Before you take it to
the Assembly, and as confirmed by the sources of the group, commented along with
other parliamentarians with the Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius. Now, add those
sources shall be consulted again with the Government for that "final
adjustment".
A spokesman for Foreign Affairs said Wednesday that it is obvious that the
two-state solution, that France advocates, becomes "necessarily" by the
recognition of Palestine. "If the negotiation is impossible, or if no conclusion
is reached, France will have to exercise their responsibilities".
France would do in a manner similar to that of United Kingdom, that the last
October 13 also adopted a non-binding resolution in favor of the recognition of
Palestine "as a contribution to the establishment of a negotiated solution of
two States". "France is mobilized with its European partners and the UN Security
Council, in order to examine the conditions of the early resumption of the
negotiations," he said Wednesday, the French Foreign spokesman.
