The Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Albanese, announced Monday that his government will recognize the State of Palestine at the United Nations General Assembly in September as part of a “coordinated global effort” to boost the solution of two states al.
The president has affirmed at a press conference that the Palestinian authority and its president, Mahmud Abbas, have committed them to the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) not having any role in the future Palestinian state, a promise that has gained “more weight” after the Arab league has urged the group in command of the Gazatis authorities to finish with its mandate in the enclave Australian ABC.
Likewise, Abbas would have committed demilitarization, to the celebration of general elections and the interruption of the Payment System to Families of Prisoners and Combatters dead in the conflict with Israel.
ALBANESE: “It is the best hope of humanity”
Albanese has thus defended his decision as an effort to achieve the solution of two states ,. “It is the best hope of humanity to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and put an end to the conflict, suffering and famine in Gaza,” he said.
“This conflict, which has extended for so long, I think that Australians want it to end. And you can only put an end to him when both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security,” he argued.
The Australian leader has been critical of his Israeli pair, Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has shaved his policies in the Palestinian territories of both Gaza and the West Bank. In the coastal enclave, the situation “has overcome the worst fears of the world,” he said he regretted in a call with the Israeli leader, although he has not detailed when he took place.
In a conversation that has presented as “civilized”, Albanese has argued that a political solution was necessary, not a military response, while the arguments presented by Netanyahu “were very similar to those that (it) presented more than a year ago,” according to the Australian.
In defense of the National Palestinian Authority
In this sense, Albanese has defended that the decision to recognize the state of Palestine does not reward Hamas, not only for the commitments assumed in this regard by the Palestinian authority, but because the movement would not support the solution of two states, but a single Palestinian state. “Hamas is not just an enemy of the Israelis. He is also the enemy of the Palestinian people and their actions, including those of the current conflict, in which the opposition to Hamas has been answered brutally, they are recognized not only by Israel, but by the international community,” he said.
On the other hand, he has denounced that “the Netanyahu government is rapidly expanding illegal settlements.” “The violence of the colonists in the West Bank has increased. There have been threats of annexing the occupied Palestinian territories and proposals for permanent forced displacement of the Palestinian people. These actions, together with the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, run the risk of putting the solution of two states out of the reach of a generation,” said the Australian prime minister.
The Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, who has lamented that “Australians, and people from all over the world have also participated in the press conference, have been traumatized by the images” broadcast on the Gaza Strip. “We have always said that the Palestinian civilians cannot be made to defeat Hamas. But a whole population has been destroyed,” he criticized.
It has also enunciated the recognition of the Palestinian State as part of a longer process, which will continue with Australia helping “to develop the ability of the Palestinian authority”, which “will” demand “that it fulfills its commitments. “The practical application of our recognition will be linked to progress in these commitments,” he said.
On the other hand, Wong said he spoke with his American counterpart, Marco Rubio, about his government’s decision to recognize Palestine, a call that has framed in a gesture of “diplomatic courtesy.” In addition, asked if she had received Washignton guarantees that today’s announcement would not affect the bilateral relationship, the head of the Australian portfolio has asserted that Australia makes sovereign decisions.
For her, the relationship with the administration of President Donald Trump goes beyond the Middle East. “We talk about a series of issues, including Indo-Pacific and security in the Indo-Pacific. And I think it follows that the project in which we are involved with the United States and others, which is peace, stability and security in our region,” he said.
