Argentina & Brazil in key move to recognise Palestinean state

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Brazil recognition of Palestine irks Israel
Sat Dec 4, 2010 10:57PM
PressTV - Brazil recognition of Palestine irks Israel

Acting PA Chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at Mercy Museum in Salvador, Bahia State, November 20, 2009
Israel has expressed regret over Brazil's decision to recognize the state of Palestine based on the borders before Israel's occupation of the West Bank in 1967.


On Friday, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced that Brasilia recognizes the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

"Israel expresses sadness and disappointment over the decision by the Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a month before he steps down," AFP quoted a statement from the Israeli Foreign Ministry as saying on Saturday.

"Recognition of a Palestinian state is a breach of the interim agreement which was signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 1995, which said that the issue of the status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be discussed and resolved through negotiations," it added.

Israel also accused Brazil of ignoring the 2003 Middle East roadmap for peace, which said a Palestinian state could be established through dialogue but not through unilateral measures.

"Every attempt to bypass this process and to decide in advance in a unilateral manner about important issues which are disputed, only harms trust between the sides, and hurts their commitment to the agreed framework of negotiating towards peace," the statement said.

The Brazilian announcement came in a public letter addressed to acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas. Lula sent the letter in response to a personal request by Abbas on November 24.

The letter expressed support for the Palestinians' quest for a homeland as a "legitimate aspiration of the Palestinian people for a secure, united, democratic and economically viable state."

MRS/AGB/HGL

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Argentina recognizes Palestinian state
Mon Dec 6, 2010 5:38PM
PressTV - Argentina recognizes Palestinian state

Acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas (L) and Argentine President Cristina Kirchner
Argentina has become the second Latin American state after Brazil to recognize Palestine as an independent state.


In a letter to acting Palestinian Authority Chief Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, Argentine President Cristina Kirchner wrote that her country recognizes Palestine as a "free and independent state" as defined by the 1967 borders, AFP reported.

On Friday, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry announced that Brasilia recognizes the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.

The Brazilian announcement came in a public letter in response to a personal request by Abbas on November 24.

The Brazilian letter expressed support for the Palestinians' quest for a homeland as a "legitimate aspiration of the Palestinian people for a secure, united, democratic and economically viable state."

The move has infuriated officials in Tel Aviv.

US Congressman Eliot Engel criticized the Brazilian move and said, "Brazil's decision to recognize Palestine is severely misguided and represents a last gasp by a Lula-led foreign policy which was already substantially off track."

The international community backs Palestinian demands for a state in most of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem), all territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War.

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where is rising India when it comes to bold moves like these!

 

[Nothing]

where is rising India when it comes to bold moves like these!

see East of yours ..you will find rising sun ..it is India

You blind Indian hater...

Open your eyes ..wake up from your wet dream
Why the hell you are bringing India in this thread.

Indian are ahead of Pakistani's in supporting Palestinean .
where is Pakistan... you guys only think for India uuhhh..
Think about your self and see in which situation you guys are... don't just do against Israel and India .. do actual work too ... except **************
We are first non-Arab country ..means ahead of Pakistan ... (if you guys are not counting Pakistan as Arab country ..
Read this ...


India was the first non-Arab country to contemporaneously recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization's authority as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." A PLO office was set up in the Indian capital in 1975, with full diplomatic relations established in March 1980. In return, India opened a Representative Office in Gaza on June 25, 1996. Indian support was said to extend to "consistent and unwavering support" on the Palestinian issue, where it shared the perception that the question of Palestine is at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. India has thus consistently supported the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to a State and the consequent imperative need for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and 425, as well as the principle of "Land for Peace." India has also supported the Madrid Conference of October, 1991.

Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006, India came out, surprisingly, saying Israeli use of force was "disproportionate and excessive.

October 2008 PAP President Abbas visited new Delhi where he met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who announced an assistance of US$20 million to the Palestinian Authority and promised to do all New Delhi can to help it in the PNA's endeavours.

 

[somebozo]

see East of yours ..you will find rising sun ..it is India

You blind Indian hater...

Open your eyes ..wake up from your wet dream
Why the hell you are bringing India in this thread.

Indian are ahead of Pakistani's in supporting Palestinean .
where is Pakistan... you guys only think for India uuhhh..
Think about your self and see in which situation you guys are... don't just do against Israel and India .. do actual work too ... except **************
We are first non-Arab country ..means ahead of Pakistan ... (if you guys are not counting Pakistan as Arab country ..
Read this ...


India was the first non-Arab country to contemporaneously recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization's authority as "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." A PLO office was set up in the Indian capital in 1975, with full diplomatic relations established in March 1980. In return, India opened a Representative Office in Gaza on June 25, 1996. Indian support was said to extend to "consistent and unwavering support" on the Palestinian issue, where it shared the perception that the question of Palestine is at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. India has thus consistently supported the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to a State and the consequent imperative need for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and 425, as well as the principle of "Land for Peace." India has also supported the Madrid Conference of October, 1991.

Following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006, India came out, surprisingly, saying Israeli use of force was "disproportionate and excessive.

Action speaks louder than words. PLO was engaged in terrorist activities a policy which did not sit well with Pakistan while India sought closer relations with such guerrilla organizations to use them as its auxiliary wings. (example: AL in east Pakistan, BLA in Baluchistan, MQM in Karachi) Covert terrorism has always been Indian state policy to achieve political goals. Similar to the political guidelines used by its larger ally soviet union. PLO terrorist activities caused mass spread destruction, war and chaos in Jordan and Lebanon. Inviting Israeli invasion bombing and occupation of Lebanon as well. From political point of view it was a hilarious blunder to recognize a terrorist organization exposing Indian dirty tricks of politics by terror. The Arabs at large were enemy of PLO and India did no good to its standing among wider Arab populace.

Pakistani forces instead fought on the Jordanian front to expel this terrorist organization.

Black September in Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PLO in Lebanon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lebanese Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pakistan however did recognize the denomination of Palestine approved with world consensus on 11/1988 and so did India and most of the countries.

Foreign relations of the Palestinian National Authority - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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@somebozo

That is some of the most convuluted reasoning I have read about why it was alright for US allied Pakistan and Arab countries to undermine the PLO.

And what is even more suprising that you are justifying Zia's role in the massacre of Palestinians in Jordan which is known as "Black September"among them.

You should appreciate and tell your Pakistani friends to stop with the false cannard of India not helping the Palestinians. I'm sure it will be shocking for them as it probably was for you to know that India was one of the first countries to recognise Palestine as a state with 1967 borders right in 1988 before even some muslim countries as well as China.

Even today on the walls of Palestine, you can see the potrait of Mahatma Gandhi. That is the respect that they have for Indians.