{"id":56365,"date":"2024-05-22T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/what-does-it-mean-to-recognize-a-palestinian-state\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T16:11:58","slug":"what-does-it-mean-to-recognize-a-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/22\/what-does-it-mean-to-recognize-a-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does It Mean to Recognize a Palestinian State?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The decision by three European countries \u2014 Ireland, Norway and Spain \u2014 to recognize a Palestinian state fits into a long-term goal of Palestinian leaders to secure diplomatic acceptance, but it appears that the immediate practical impact will be limited.<\/p>\n

Broadly speaking, recognizing a state means declaring that it meets the conditions of statehood under international law. It typically opens a path to setting up diplomatic relations and an embassy there. But the European countries appeared to be mostly concerned with expressing support for Palestinians and sending a message to Israel at a time of deepening international concern about its conduct of the war.<\/p>\n

The foreign minister of Norway, Espen Barth Eide, told a news conference that the country\u2019s representative office to the Palestinian Authority, which was opened in the West Bank in 1999, would become an embassy. He gave no date for this change but said it would enable Norway to enter into bilateral agreements.<\/p>\n

Recognition would also have some \u201cdomestic legal effects in Norway in areas where issues related to the state of Palestine arise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n