{"id":86184,"date":"2025-09-17T18:01:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=86184"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:01:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:01:30","slug":"wealthiest-european-country-to-recognize-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/wealthiest-european-country-to-recognize-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wealthiest European country to recognize Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUXEMBOURG CITY: The Luxembourg government has announced plans to formally recognize <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/united-nations-backs-two-state-solution-for-palestine\/\">Palestine<\/a> as a state during the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Luc Frieden and Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel reportedly informed a parliamentary commission of the decision. Local broadcaster RTL Letzeburg reported that Bettel added that he would submit a bill to parliament to pave the way for additional measures, including possible sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, France and Saudi Arabia are set to co-host a high-level meeting on Palestinian recognition on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 22.<\/p>\n<p>Luxembourg\u2019s decision follows similar moves by Spain, Ireland, Norway and Slovenia earlier this year, while France and Malta have also announced plans to extend recognition.<\/p>\n<p>The growing wave of European support for a Palestinian state coincides with growing international pressure on Israel over its military campaign in Gaza. More recently, a UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel&#8217;s actions there amounted to genocide, further intensifying calls for accountability and recognition of Palestinian rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LUXEMBOURG CITY: The Luxembourg government has announced plans to formally recognize Palestine as a state during the upcoming session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) later this month. Prime Minister Luc Frieden and Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel reportedly informed a parliamentary commission of the decision. Local broadcaster RTL Letzeburg reported that Bettel added that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10114,548,31251],"class_list":["post-86184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-palestine","tag-unga","tag-luxembourg-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86189,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86184\/revisions\/86189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}