A statement issued by the ministry said that Portugal is considering "recognizing the State of Palestine as part of a process that may take place during the week of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next September . "
Earlier on Wednesday, 15 Western countries, including France, issued a collective call to recognize the State of Palestine and to cease fire in the Gaza Strip. The call was published by the French Foreign Ministry on its website.
The conference, co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France, was attended by Palestine, but absent from the United States. The conference featured high -level participation, and aimed to discuss ways to implement the two-state solution and support the process of international recognition of the Palestinian state. The conference continued for two days and concluded on Tuesday.
The conference's closing session, held on Tuesday evening, issued what became known as the "New York Declaration," which affirmed an agreement to take concrete, time-bound steps to achieve this goal.
The declaration emphasized the need for collective action to end the war in Gaza, ensure Israel's withdrawal from the Strip, and hand it over to the Palestinian Authority. It emphasized that "the reconstruction of Gaza will be supported by an international fund and through a reconstruction conference to be held soon in Cairo."
He also called on Tel Aviv to issue a clear and public commitment to the two-state solution, including a sovereign and viable Palestinian state, to immediately end violence and incitement against Palestinians, and to halt all settlement activity on occupied Palestinian territory.
The declaration emphasized the importance of recognizing the State of Palestine and granting it full membership in the United Nations. It also called for "Palestinian reforms, including elections within a year, and strengthening governance and security."
With American support, Israel has been waging a genocidal war in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, involving killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The genocide left approximately 206,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
