00:00Saudi Arabia and France have opened a three-day conference at the United Nations
00:04with the aim of recognizing Palestinian statehood.
00:07The conference began on Monday, a few days after French President Macron announced
00:10that Paris would officially recognize the Palestinian government in September.
00:15In this regard, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barot said that the conference
00:19would also serve as a platform for other European countries to recognize Palestinian statehood
00:24without clarifying which countries he was referring to.
00:26Meanwhile, Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud
00:31said that the Kingdom was seeking World Bank approval to transfer $300 million to Gaza and the West Bank
00:37to address the serious humanitarian crisis in the territory.
00:41The talks are co-shared by 16 other countries and delegations,
00:45including the United Kingdom, Ireland and the European Union.
00:48Peace is possible.
00:51We want to build an alternative to the permanent state of war in the region
00:55and this alternative must go through the to-state solution, Israel and Palestine,
01:00living in peace and security.
01:03This is France's historical position and it is the only possible path.
01:07Et c'est la seule voie possible.
01:11Cette conférence est donc une étape décisive.
01:14This conference is therefore a decisive step, a decisive step on the path leading, of course,
01:20to the emergence of this to-state solution, which leads up to the United Nations General Assembly in September,
01:26during which France will formalise, through the voice of the President of the Republic,
01:30its decision for recognition, and during which we will count on the collective mobilisation
01:34that must continue before it is too late.
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