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Be Prepared to Bury the Two-State Solution, Palestinian FM Warns

Riyad Malki told the United Nations Security Council that it was a mistake to wait to take any action, as if time would allow for the issue to resolve itself.

byForeign Desk Staff

January 20, 2022

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Be prepared to bury the two-state solution, Palestinian FM warns

Riyad Malki (photo credit: ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)

The Jerusalem Post

Prepare to eulogize the two-state resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warned Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad Malki on Wednesday as he called on the international community to force Israel to withdraw to the pre-1967 lines.

"There is urgency because this conflict has a solution that may still be available today and that will no longer be viable tomorrow," Maliki told the United Nations Security Council during its monthly meeting on the conflict.

"The two-State solution … does not need you by its bedside to share comforting words. It needs you to save it.