The Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, announced on Wednesday that Canada intends to recognize in the General Assembly of September to Palestine as a state, thus adding to similar measures recently taken by other Western countries.
“This intention is based on the commitment of the Palestinian authority with the necessary reforms, including the commitments of the President (Mahmud) abbas to deeply reform his governance, to celebrate general elections in 2026 in which Hamas cannot participate, and demilitarize the Palestinian state,” he said.
Also, Carney, who transferred this position to Abbas during a phone call, has indicated that Canada “will intensify its efforts to support solid democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future.”
In this sense, he stressed that his country “has been committed to the solution of two states for a long time”, which includes “an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state that lives with the state of Israel in peace and security.” “For decades, this result was expected to be achieved as part of a peace process based on a negotiated agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority,” he acknowledged.
However, he has indicated that “unfortunately, this approach is no longer sustainable. The perspectives of a solution of two states have been seriously eroded”, and has assured that this situation has been given by “the widespread threat of Hamas’s terrorism against Israel” and its “prolonged violent rejection” to the “right of Israel to already exist the solution of two states.”
The Head of Government of Canada, however, has also mentioned as problems “the accelerated construction of settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem East” and the outbreak of the violence of Israeli settlers against the Palestinians, as well as “the persistent inability of the Israeli government to prevent the rapid deterioration of the humanitarian disaster in Gaza, with the access prevented from food and other humanitarian supplies essential “.
That is why he has considered that “the growing suffering of the civilian population does not admit delays” and that the international coordinated action is necessary to “support peace, security and dignity of human life”, while “preserving a solution of two states means supporting all peoples that choose peace instead of violence or terrorism.”
“Canada will always firmly support Israel’s existence as an independent state in the Middle East that lives in peace and security. Any path to lasting peace for Israel also requires it,” said Canadian ‘premier’ during a press conference.
This announcement comes after, after the UN Conference held in New York, a fortnight of countries, including Spain, asked the international community to pave the way to achieve a global recognition of the state of Palestine, while expressing their willingness to continue moving forward in a “collective” way to end the Israeli offensive and achieve a solution of two states that ends the conflict.
In this context, the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, announced that he will recognize Palestine if Israel does not access a high fire and ends the “terrible situation” that crosses the Palestinian enclave. Days before, the French president, Emmanuel Macron, said he would take this measure in September, “faithful to his historical commitment to a fair and lasting peace in the Middle East.”
