Egypt Daily News- In a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this morning, Egypt expressed its deep regret over the inability of the Security Council, against the backdrop of the United States’ use of its veto, to issue a resolution enabling the State of Palestine to obtain full membership in the United Nations, at a critical time in which it is passing.
The Palestinian issue is at a crossroads, requiring countries to bear their historical responsibility by taking a position in support of Palestinian rights and creating a real political horizon for relaunching the peace process with the aim of the final settlement of the Palestinian issue on the basis of the two-state solution.
Egypt affirmed that recognizing the Palestinian state and approving its full membership in the United Nations is an inherent right of the Palestinian people, who have suffered from the Israeli occupation for more than 70 years, and an important step on the path to implementing the provisions of international law and the recognized resolutions of international legitimacy to establish the two-state solution and preserve the rights of the Palestinian people. legitimate and inalienable, stressing the necessity of fully enabling the Palestinian people to exercise all their legitimate rights.
Egypt also considered that obstructing the recognition of the right of the Palestinian people to recognize their state is not consistent with the legal and historical responsibility placed on the international community towards ending the occupation and reaching a final and just solution to the Palestinian issue.
Egypt called on the international parties supporting peace to recognize the Palestinian state, and to deal with the required responsibility in light of the current circumstance, to restore hope in reviving the peace process on serious foundations that lead to the establishment of an independent, viable, and contiguous Palestinian state, on June 4th, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, living in peace side by side with Israel.
