Canada will recognize the state of Palestine in September at the UN General Assembly | International

Canada will recognize the state of Palestine in September, announced on Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney in Ottawa. Canada becomes the third country of the G-7, the group of the most advanced economies in the world, which recognizes Palestine, after France, which will also do so in September, and the United Kingdom, which has conditioned its support for rejection by Israel of a high fire in Gaza.

The US president, Donald Trump, who is in full offensive in his commercial war and is Israel’s greatest ally, has shown his discontent with this decision. In a brief message in Truth, his social network, the Republican leader has threatened commercial reprisals for Carney’s announcement. “Wow! Canada has just announced that it supports the creation of the Palestinian State. That will make it difficult for us to reach a commercial agreement with them. Oh, Canada!”, He said, without giving more details.

Carney has justified his government’s decision in response to the “unbearable suffering” caused by Israel by preventing the distribution of humanitarian aid in the enclave; the violence of Israeli settlers in the West Bank and the plans to annexation of the Palestinian territory. The official recognition of Canada and France will be effective in the UN General Assembly, the third week of September; A staging that will serve to enhance the role of the international organization against the criticisms of those who consider it inoperative.

“This intention is based on the commitment of the Palestinian authority with the necessary reforms, including the commitments of the President (Mahmud) abbas to deeply reform his governance, to celebrate general elections in 2026 in which Hamas cannot participate, and demilitarize the Palestinian state,” said Carney. He also indicated that Canada “will intensify its efforts to support solid democratic governance in Palestine and the contributions of its people to a more peaceful and hopeful future.” Carney has moved her position to Abbas during a phone call.

The announcement of the Canadian Prime Minister is not accidental, because it coincides with the closure of a ministerial conference at the UN for the negotiated solution of the Palestinian conflict and the solution of two states, and that has put the focus on the disarmament of Hamas and in the urgent delivery of humanitarian aid for a population that dies of hunger. “Canada has been committed to a solution of two states for a long time, an independent, viable and sovereign Palestinian state that lives next to the state of Israel in peace and security,” said Carney, flanked by her Minister of Foreign Affairs, Anita Anand.

Anand participated on Monday at the UN Conference with a speech focused on the need to address “humanitarian disaster” and facilitate, without obstacles, the aid delivery. Each and every one of the Bodye’s announcement points, since Hamas’s disarmament to a unique government for Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank) under the Palestinian authority of Abbas, have been repeated in the speeches of the speakers of the UN forum, as well as in the calls for action, especially that of the Arab countries, after more than a year and a half of war.

Like the majority of participants in the International Forum, Carney has also held Hamas responsible for the impossibility of reaching a negotiated solution to resolve the oldest conflict on the UN table: his first peace maintenance mission, in 1948, was in Palestine. “For decades, we hope that this result (the solution of two states) will be achieved as part of a peace process based on a negotiated agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian authority,” he said. But Hamas’s attack on Israel in October 2023 and the “prolonged violent rejection” of the organization that Gaza governs the existence of the state of Israel “have seriously eroded their right to exist and the solution of two states.” Last week, the mediators of Alto El Fuego, Qatar and Egypt, retired again from the dialogue table against the nth failure of the dialogue.

In the closure of the UN Conference, an appointment that on Monday was disdained by the US as an “advertising trick” that supposedly distracts the attention of the failed negotiations of Alto El Fuego, the French government has issued a statement confirming the desire of a fortnight of countries – including Spain, which already recognized Palestine last year – to take a step forward to achieve the “global recognition” of the “global recognition”. Australia, Canada and New Zealand signed the petition and now Carney confirms their determination.