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Since the formation of current foreign policy under George Papandreou, Greece has seen a rapid improvement in relations with Israel, [256] leading the media to mark the conclusion of Greece's pro-Palestinian era. [257] However, in December 2015, Greece's parliament voted in favour of a motion requesting that the government recognize Palestine ...
The Dawa Party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on Islamic countries to cut relations with Israel and end all "secret and public talks" with it. [8] Also the Iraqi Shia leader Ali al-Sistani has called for decisive action by Arab and Muslim states for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza. Though he condemned the operation, he stated that ...
The Palestine Liberation Organization was created in 1964 as a paramilitary organization and has sought to conduct foreign relations with states and international organisations since that time. [1] Initially, the PLO established relations with Arab and communist countries. In 1969 the PLO became a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
A group of United Nations experts called on Monday for all countries to recognise a Palestinian state to ensure peace in the Middle East. The call came less than a week after Spain, Ireland and ...
But Arab countries and many Palestinians also suspect Israel might use this opportunity to force permanent demographic changes to wreck Palestinian demands for statehood in Gaza, the West Bank and ...
Both countries say recognising a Palestinian state must be the result of negotiations rather than unilateral declarations, and other major European countries like France and Britain also declined ...
Most sovereign states have alternative names. Some countries have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names and initialisms for all nations, countries, and sovereign states, in English and any predominant or official languages of the country in question.
The two-state solution is supported by many countries, and the Palestinian Authority. [1] Israel currently does not support the idea, though it has in the past. [2] The first proposal for separate Jewish and Arab states in the territory was made by the British Peel Commission report in 1937. [3]