“It’s not a peace conference,” said Bob Rae, Canada Ambassador to the UN, said UN News Before the event, mandated by the General Assembly, in which his country will play a leading role.
“It is a way of trying to maintain the debate and overcome the points of sticking to the solutions. We hope there will be listening, and we hope there will be learning on the basis of what we hear. »»
Mr. Rae’s prudence reflects the high levels of uncertainty and concern surrounding the two -state solution. None of the two parties to the conflict will participate, and the United States, a solid player in Israel, should not participate.
In an address at Security advice In April, the UN Secretary General António Guterres warned that the process is “at risk of disappearing completely”. The political will to achieve the goal, he said, “feels more distant than ever”.
However, in an exchange with the press on June 5, Mr. Guterres also said: “And for those who doubt the two -state solution, I ask: what is the alternative? Is this a solution to a state in which the Palestinians are expelled, either the Palestinians will be forced to live in their country without rights? ”
He recalled that it was “the duty of the international community to keep the solution to two states alive, then to materialize the conditions to get there”.
The Canadian ambassador said that the event organizers continue to urge Israel and Palestine to engage with the conference, they understand the difficult situation in which they both find themselves. “Many citizens [of Israel] are always detained as hostages by Hamas. They have undergone this huge attack, the worst attack on the Jewish population all over the world since 1940. And now we have to face the outcome of what was the war in Gaza, which is extremely traumatic for the Palestinians and for many members of the Arab community. »»
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The conference, held at the council of the supervision of the UN headquarters in New York, was convened following the adoption of a resolution of the General Assembly (Resolution ES-10/22) In 2024. In a conceptual note published before the event, the two nations declared that the international consensus on the two -state solution “still benefits from almost universal support” and that it is “clearly the only way to satisfy legitimate aspirations, in accordance with international law, both Israelis and Palestinians … and to create the conditions of regional peace and stability.”
In a blow to the failure of previous efforts to provoke peace, the declaration declares that “the objective of this international conference would not be to” relaunch “or to” restart “another endless process, but to implement, once and for all, the solution to two states”.
In a preparation meeting For the conference held at the UN in May, Anne-Claire Legendre, counselor in the Middle East and North Africa of French President Emmanuel Macron, said that “the prospects of a Palestinian state must be maintained. Irreversible steps and concrete measures for its implementation are necessary “and call for a loose drying, an immediate influx of human aid and the liberation of the hosts.
His counterpart, Manal Bint Hassan Radwan, head of the Saudi negotiation team, added that efforts to end the fighting and guarantee the release of hostages and prisoners must be “anchored in a credible and irreversible political plan which approaches the deep cause of the conflict and offers a real journey to peace, dignity and mutual security”.
“There must be the basis of a broader political solution. It is not only a question of saying that there will be a ceasefire and which will solve the problem. How to rebuild Gaza? How to change the governance of Gaza? How do we approach the West Bank? How did we deal with a new negotiation that was really successful, which has been really managed to negotiate, on the basis of 1993, since there has been a really successful negotiation, on the basis of 1993, since, there has been a really successful negotiation, on the basis of the 1993, since, there has been a really successful negotiation, on the basis of the 1993, Negotiate, which has been on negotiations, from a Onet Lovered, from a real workforce, this time, we have not had many fundamental contracts.
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