Canada and Malta say they will recognise Palestine, joining France and UK

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Canada and Malta say they will recognise Palestine, joining France and UK  It comes as high-level representatives met at a UN conference on a two-state solution, which Israel and the United States have boycott.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/31/canada-and-malta-say-they-will-recognise-palestine-joining-france-and-uk  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Canada and Malta both announced on Wednesday that they will formally recognize the state

00:06of Palestine in September. It follows the same announcements made by France and the

00:11United Kingdom, who also said they would offer formal recognition at the United Nations General

00:16Assembly that month. Canada has long been committed to a two-state solution. An independent,

00:24viable and sovereign Palestinian state living side by side with the state of Israel in peace

00:33and security. The move to recognize Palestine as a state comes amid a renewed push in Europe to put

00:40pressure on Israel to stop its devastating war on Gaza. Malta and Canada's announcements came as

00:47high-level representatives met at a United Nations conference on a two-state solution, which Israel

00:53has opposed to and therefore boycotted the meeting. Like Israel, its close ally, the United States,

01:00also decided to boycott the UN conference.

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