Ashraf AboArafe
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Shoukry, participated on April 29 in the coordination ministerial meeting of a number of Arab and European countries and the League of Arab States to discuss the necessary moves to support efforts to implement the two-state solution and recognize the Palestinian state. This was on the sidelines of the Minister of Foreign Affairs’ participation in the meetings of the World Economic Forum held in Riyadh.
The official spokesman for the Foreign Ministry explained that Minister Shukri reiterated during the meeting the need for the international community to move seriously to work to end the long-term Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, and to support the Palestinian people in obtaining their legitimate, inalienable rights, noting that the current delicate circumstance that they are going through The Palestinian issue, in light of the Israeli war on Gaza and the increasing tension in the West Bank, makes it imperative for international parties to carry out their legal and humanitarian responsibilities to find a serious political horizon to establish a two-state solution and a just and comprehensive peace in the region.
Ambassador Abu Zeid added that Minister Shukri called during the meeting for the need for international parties to recognize the Palestinian state, stressing that the two-state solution is the only way to ensure peace between Palestinians and Israelis, prevent the conflict from escalating, and establish stability and coexistence among the peoples of the region.
In conclusion, Minister Shukri stressed that the continuation of the status quo in the occupied Palestinian territories would only result in increasing vicious circles of violence, and that the peace option is the most appropriate, stressing Egypt’s firm commitment to supporting the rights of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the lines of the Fourth June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and to live side by side with Israel.
