Scholz says Germany has “no reason” to recognize the State of Palestine at this time

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The Prime Minister of Portugal rules out taking this step and assures that he will wait for a discussion on the issue “at the EU level”

BERLIN, May 24. (DPA/EP) –

The Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, stated this Friday that Berlin has “no reason” to recognize the State of Palestine at this time, following the announcements in this regard made on Wednesday by the governments of Spain, Ireland and Norway, which They will come into force on May 28 and have unleashed a flood of criticism from the Israeli authorities.

“There is no clarity about the territory of the State, about all the other issues related to it,” said Scholz, who stressed that for the moment “we have not gone that far” and who added that what is necessary is “a solution negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians that amounts to a two-state solution.

Thus, he stated that this option would also include an autonomous Palestinian authority responsible for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, although he acknowledged that it is “very far from that.” The German Chancellor stressed that the most important thing at the moment is “to achieve a long-term ceasefire” in Gaza and “for all parties involved to commit to the two-state solution.”

Scholz has highlighted that the Arab countries in the region have been working in recent months to guarantee security in the Middle East and has elaborated that the path of “symbolic recognition of statehood” would not lead any further, as has picked up by the German news agency DPA.

The German Chancellor’s statements took place within the framework of a press conference with the Prime Minister of Portugal, Luís Montenegro, who for his part stressed that Lisbon “is not in a position” to recognize the State of Palestine at this time. “unilateral” form. “We are not in a position to do it and we are not going to do it this time.”

“We will wait for the discussion and deepening of this issue within the European Union,” he argued, before reiterating Portugal’s support for the two-state solution. “Portugal voted favorably in the United Nations Assembly for the recognition of Palestine as a full member, which is a way of contributing to an approach to opening the way to a two-state solution,” she concluded.