Is it right to officially recognize the state of Palestine, as the French president Macron has recently announced, or is it better to move more diplomatically, as in the case of Italy, supporting the motion “two peoples, two states” but with a more prudent timing? The Vatican Secretary of State Pietro Parolin brought even later and, in a conversation with journalists on the sidelines of an event of the influencer jubilee, he recalled that the Holy See has it “already recognized»For some time.
The purple simply reminded the public opinion with the state of the facts, given that The Vatican already 25 years ago, on February 15, 2000, had signed a first agreement with the OLPthe organization for the liberation of Palestine, and fifteen years later signed a global agreement with the state of Palestine on June 26, 2015, which entered into force in January 2016. “I hope this agreement may somehow constitute a stimulus to end definitively to the year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict that continues to cause suffering to both sides >>, wrote the archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, then secretary. for relations with states. «I also hope that the desired solution of the two states becomes reality as soon as possible. Catholics do not want any privilege if not to continue to collaborate with their fellow citizens for the good of society ».
The Secretary of State, recalling the importance of the recognition of the two states, Israel and Palestine, “who live close to each other, independently but also in collaboration and security“, Confirmed the goodness of the Diplomatic line of the Holy See. Certainly, he observed, “it becomes more and more difficult for the situation that has been created and is being created in the West Bank”, referring to the Israeli settlements in those territories: “This certainly does not favor, from a practical point of view, the realization of the state of Palestine”. Hence the hope that the meetings in New York, today and tomorrow on the occasion of the high -level international conference for the peaceful solution of the Palestinian question and the implementation of the two -states solution, bring “some fruit”.
