RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN STATE

French President Emmanuel Macron I will recognize the Palestinian state along with Australia, Belgium, Canada, Malta, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Mexico, Ireland, Spain, Norway, and Slovenia  did so in 2024.

Some countries will me an outright recognition of a Palestinian state and others will make pledge toward implementing it as part of a two-state solution to the conflict. Currently 147 of the U.N.’s 193 member states recognize an independent Palestinian state.

The United Kingdom is expected to announce its recognition Sunday before a formal declaration Monday. And yet, the U.K. is keeping its attendance at Monday’s summit low key. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not currently expected to attend the U.N. General Assembly himself. Instead, Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and new Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper will take part.

If France, Canada, and the UK recognize a Palestinian state at the next UN General Assembly session in September 2025, France and the UK would become the third and fourth permanent members of the UN Security Council to do so (after China and Russia, meaning the US would be the only permanent member of the Security Council not to recognize a Palestinian states).  France, Canada and the UK would also become the first three G7 states to recognize a Palestinian state (the other members of the G7 are Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States). The announcements follow the decisions of four European states (Ireland, Spain, Norway, and Slovenia) to recognize a Palestinian state in 2024.

Recognition Summary

1. Australia
2. Belgium
3. Canada
4. Malta
5. Mexico
6. Portugal
7. United Kingdom
8. China
9. Russia
10. Ireland
11. Spain
12. Norway
13. Slovenia