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Wong says there is a risk ‘there will be no Palestine left to recognise’

The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, said Sunday’s march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge reflected the “distress of Australians on what we are seeing unfolding in Gaza”. Asked on RN Breakfast this morning whether the march had accelerated any government plans to recognise Palestinian statehood, Wong said:

In relation to recognition, I’ve said for over a year now it’s a matter of when, not if. I would say … there is a risk there will be no Palestine left to recognise if the international community don’t move to create that pathway to a two-state solution.

It has been my long-held position that there will be no peace and security, for the people of Israel, unless we resolve to a Palestinian state. That has been my view for decades.

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Source: Guardian - World News