Canada will recognize the state of Palestine in September, announced the Prime Minister in Ottawa on Wednesday. Canada becomes the third country of the G7, the group of the most advanced economies in the world, which recognizes Palestine, after, and the United Kingdom, to Israel rejection of a high fire in Gaza.
Carney has justified his government’s decision in response to the “unbearable suffering” caused by Israel by preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid in the enclave; and the plans for annexation of the Palestinian territory. The official recognition of Canada and France will be effective in the UN General Assembly, the third week of September; A staging that will serve to enhance the role of the international organization against the criticisms of those who consider it inoperative.
“This intention is based on the commitment of the Palestinian authority with the necessary reforms, including the president’s commitments [Mahmud] Abbas to deeply reform his governance, to celebrate general elections in 2026 in which Hamas cannot participate, and demilitarize the Palestinian State, ”said Carney. Likewise, he has indicated that Canada“ intensify its efforts to support a solid democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future. ” Telefónica
The announcement of the Canadian Prime Minister is not accidental, because it coincides with the closure of a ministerial conference at the UN for the negotiated solution of the Palestinian conflict and the solution of two states, and that has put the focus on the disarmament of Hamas and in the urgent delivery of. “Canada has been committed to a solution of two states for a long time, an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state that lives next to the state of Israel in peace and security,” said Carney, flanked by her Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand.
Anand participated on Monday at the UN Conference with a speech focused on the need to address “humanitarian disaster” and facilitate, without obstacles, the aid delivery. Each and every one of the Bodye’s announcement points, from a unique government for Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank) under the Palestinian authority of Abbas, have been repeated in the speeches of the Speakers of the UN forum, as well as in the calls for action, after more than a year and a half of war.
Like many other speakers in the UN forum, Carney has also held Hamas responsible for the impossibility of a negotiated agreement. “For decades, we hope that this result will be achieved as part of a peace process based on a negotiated agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority,” he said. But Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023 and the “prolonged violent rejection” of the organization that Gaza governs “have seriously eroded Israel’s right to exist and the solution of two states”, as well as any possibility of a negotiated solution. Last week, the mediators of Alto El Fuego, Qatar and Egypt, retired again from the dialogue table against the nth failure of the dialogue.
In the closing of the UN Conference, an appointment that on Monday was that it allegedly distracts the attention of the failed negotiations of Alto El Fuego, the French government has issued a statement confirming the desire of a fortnight of countries – including Spain, which has already recognized Palestine last year – to take a step forward to achieve the “global recognition” of the Arab nation. Australia, Canada and New Zealand signed the petition and now Carney confirms their determination.
