Israeli and Palestinian groups met in France to appeal for two-state solution Israeli and Palestinian civil society groups delivered an appeal in France on Friday to urge the international community not to abandon a two-state solution, as Paris seeks to keep the issue alive amid the Middle East war. The meeting brought together foreign ministers and senior officials from dozens of countries alongside civil society groups. It marks one year since the UN-backed New York Declaration, which set out a roadmap towards Palestinian statehood and
prompted around a dozen countries, including France, Britain and Canada, to recognise a Palestinian state. “We could find every reason in the world to give up. But you are here! Your testimonies alone are grounds for hope and action,” France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot told 250 civil society representatives from both sides. “France refuses to let the side of war prevail over the side of peace.”
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