On September 19, local time, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement that the country plans to officially recognize the Palestinian state on September 21, local time.
At the previous high-level international conference on the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian question and the implementation of the “Two-State Plan” held at the United Nations headquarters in New York on July 28-30, foreign ministers of 15 Western countries, including France, Canada and Australia, issued a joint statement expressing their recognition of the will of the Palestinian State and calling on other countries that have not yet recognized the Palestinian State to respond.
Many countries will recognize the Palestinian State and support the “two-state plan”