While London backs the move in principle, it “must be part of a wider plan, which ultimately results in a two-state solution and lasting security for Palestinians and Israelis,” U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a video statement he posted to social media on Friday evening.
According to the British leader, this will “ensure that recognition is a tool of maximum impact, to improve the lives of those who are suffering, and that must always be our ultimate goal.” The statement came after Starmer’s senior Cabinet ministers and more than a third of all MPs urged him to move faster on the recognition following Paris’s announcement on Thursday, The Guardian reported.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the German government told Reuters on Friday that Berlin was not planning to recognize a Palestinian state “in the short term,” and that the priority was to make “long-overdue progress” toward its preferred two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians. (Read More)
