ISLAMABAD: Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Thursday the country remained committed to a two-state solution for the Palestinian conflict.
“[Pakistan} reaffirms stand on #Palestine of 2 state solution as enshrined in @UN resolutions,” Qureshi said in a tweet on Thursday. “Palestinian's right to self determination is inalienable & we renew call for estab [establishment] of independent State of Palestine on basis of internationally agreed parameters w/ Al-Quds Al-Sharif as capital.”
reaffirms stand on #Palestine of 2 state solution as enshrined in @UN resolutions. Palestinian's right to self determination is inalienable & we renew call for estab of independent State of Palestine on basis of internationally agreed parameters w/ Al-Quds Al-Sharif as capital
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) September 17, 2020
Qureshi’s statement comes just days after Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri told Arab News there was no change in the nation’s stance toward Israel.
Early this week Noor Dahri, a British national of Pakistani origin, told Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom that Pakistan could be the next Muslim country to normalize ties with Israel.
Pakistan does not recognize the state of Israel and has repeatedly supported UN resolutions regarding Palestine.
Israel captured Arab East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. It later annexed it, declaring the whole of the city as its capital - a move not recognized internationally. Palestinians want East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.