French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France plans to recognize the State of Palestine in the coming months and could formalize the decision as early as June, during a United Nations conference in New York dedicated to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“We must move toward the recognition [of the Palestinian state], and we will do so in the coming months. At the UN conference, we could finalize mutual recognition — the Palestinian state and several others. We will make it happen,” Macron said in an interview with France 5 television, according to the daily newspaper Le Monde.
France has long supported a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, maintaining its position even after the Hamas militant attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
