Reuters: Ireland recognizes the state of Palestine today

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, the authorities of Ireland are finally going to become an independent country today (Wednesday). Recognize Palestine and officially declare it.

This news was told by an Irish source to the Reuters news agency, and it is expected that Prime Minister Simon Harris and Irish Foreign Minister Michael Martin will talk to the media this morning.

Previously, Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and Malta, as member states of the European Union, have announced in recent weeks that they intend to recognize the Palestinian state [incomplete and in a small part of the occupied Palestinian territory], and that a two-state solution is the only way for lasting peace. is in the region.

On the third of April, the Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, announced after the European Union summit in Brussels that his country, together with Ireland, Malta and Slovenia, will take the first steps towards the recognition of the Palestinian state. It has agreed.

It should be said that in February 1980, Ireland was the first country in the European Union to demand the formation of a Palestinian state. Ireland was also the last country to allow Israel to open an embassy in December 1993.

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