France is planning to formally recognise Palestinian statehood in the next few months, President Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday.
Speaking to France 5 TV during a two-day visit to Egypt, Macron said his aim is to finalise the motion at a United Nations conference on the Israel-Palestine conflict in June, which France will co-chair with Saudia Arabia.
"We must move toward recognition, and so, in the coming months, we will move towards that," Macron told the outlet.
"I will do it...because I think that, at some point, it will be fair 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," he went on, referencing the Middle Eastern nations which are yet to affirm the Jewish state’s legitimacy.
