Belgium will recognize the state of Palestine during the UN General Assembly this month, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevost announced today, quoted by Agence France-Presse and BTA.
„Palestine will be recognized by Belgium during the UN session! And strict sanctions will be imposed on the Israeli government“, the Belgian Foreign Minister wrote in „Ex“.
At the end of July, President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize the state of Palestine during the UN General Assembly, which will take place from September 9 to 23 in New York. More than a dozen Western countries have called on other countries around the world to do the same.