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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a press conference about recognising Palestinian statehood while Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand listens, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, July 30, 2025. — Reuters pic
OTTAWA, July 31 — Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN General Assembly in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday, a dramatic policy shift that was immediately rejected by Israel.
Carney said the move was necessary to preserve hopes of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a long-standing Canadian goal that was “being eroded before our eyes.”
“Canada intends to recognise the State of Palestine at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025, ” the prime minister said.
It makes Canada the third country, following recent announcements by France and the United Kingdom, that could recognise a Palestinian state in September.
Israel blasted Canada’s announcement as part of a “distorted campaign of international pressure.”
Asked by reporters if there was a scenario where Canada could change its position before the UN meeting, Carney said: “there’s a scenario (but) possibly one that I can’t imagine.”
Canada’s intention “is predicated on the Palestinian Authority’s commitment to much-needed reforms, ” Carney said, referring to the government body led by President Mahmud Abbas, which has civil authority in parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Carney also said it was also predicated on Abbas’s pledge to “hold general elections in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part, and to demilitarise the Palestinian state.”
Israel rejects move
With Wednesday’s announcement, Carney positioned Canada alongside France, after President Emmanuel Macron said his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during the UN meeting, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.
The Israeli embassy in Ottawa said “recognising a Palestinian state in the absence of accountable government, functioning institutions, or benevolent leadership, rewards and legitimises the monstrous barbarity of Hamas on October 7,2023.”
PA’s Abbas welcomed the announcement as a “historic” decision, while France said the countries would work together “to revive the prospect of peace in the region.”
Canada’s plan goes a step further than this week’s announcement by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
Starmer said the UK will formally recognise the State of Palestine in September unless Israel takes various “substantive steps, ” including agreeing to a ceasefire in Gaza.
Two-state solution
Carney stressed that Canada has been an unwavering member of the group of nations that hoped a two-state solution “would be achieved as part of a peace process built around a negotiated settlement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.”
“Regrettably, this approach is no longer tenable, ” he said, citing “Hamas terrorism” and the group’s “longstanding violent rejection of Israel’s right to exist.”
The peace process has also been eroded by the expansion of Israeli settlements across the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, Carney said.
The prime minister said a two-state solution was growing increasingly remote, with a vote in Israel’s parliament “calling for the annexation of the West Bank, ” as well as Israel’s “ongoing failure” to prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. — AFP
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