Portugal president says Palestine state recognition last attempt for peace

NEW YORK: Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said Monday recognising Palestine as a state was a last attempt to open a way for peace and for security in the region.

Taking to Jang/Geo News/The News, he said, “For very long, in our country, with every president, with every government, with every prime minister, and also... in the United Nations, we have adopted the principle of two people, two states. And values and principles are essential in international law, in the chart of the United Nations and in international life. If we really replace values and principles for pure reality, for pure exercise of power, then we create the risk of making the world unstable and unpredictable. That’s why we believe that the last months and years, but mostly months of acceleration, was creating a situation of fait accompli, I mean, where this principle was becoming impossible to achieve. So it was a last attempt, a last attempt to open a way for peace and for security in that region.”

Commenting on the developments, Steven Dajak, spokesman for the UN Security Journal. Steven, said “Well, we very much hope that it will lead us on a better path. The UN is the organization of the people made up by member states. We are seeing in too many places around the world impunity. We are seeing too much trampling of international law. We’re seeing too much human suffering. We need an organization that is better adapted to the realities of the world of 2025 as opposed to 1945. We went from 50 to now 193 member states, and we just need an organization that is better equipped to deal with all these challenges, and we hope that member states will act on all of the proposals made by the Secretary General.... there is a tension because the Charter is what we aspire to, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is what we aspire to, but there is a reality. We are all human beings and our job is to bring us closer to those ideals. On the two-state solution and the veto power, he said, “Well, I think there is a credibility issue for the Security Council, and that’s why the Secretary General has been calling for reform of the Security Council to make it more reflective of the world that we live in now. “What is going on in Gaza politically, militarily, and legally is abhorrent and unacceptable,” he concluded.