Barbados on Friday indicated it intends to recognise Palestine as a state while maintaining this country’s relationship with long-time ally Israel, Minister of Foreign Affairs Kerrie Symmonds announced on Friday.
In a briefing at the ministry’s Culloden Road headquarters, Symmonds said talks on the recognition of the Palestinian state started just a month before the Israeli-Hamas war began last October.
“Barbados has always maintained at the United Nations that there should be a two-state solution that goes back again as far back as 1967 or thereabouts,” the foreign minister said. “But ironically, despite having said to the world that we would like to see a two-state solution, Barbados itself has never recognised the state of Palestine. Therefore, there is an incongruity and inconsistency because how can we say we want a two-state solution if we do not recognise Palestine as a state?”
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