(REUTERS).
The Slovenian government on Thursday initiated the procedure for the recognition of a Palestinian state as a form of leverage to end the war between Israel and the Hamas terror group in Gaza, a move it announced in March, Prime Minister Robert Golob says.
“The horrors we see every day in Gaza are inadmissible and must stop,” Golob is quoted as saying on the government X platform. “I call on Israel to put an immediate end to its attacks on Gaza and to use the negotiating table.”
Golob says he would like his country´s recognition to be “an incentive for these negotiations to proceed more quickly” and speed up the dialogue in the United Nations on an immediate ceasefire, the release of hostages and the security and existence of Israel through a two-state solution.