Denmark not ruling out possibility of recognizing Palestinian state: PM

  

 

 

Denmark not ruling out possibility of recognizing Palestinian state: PM

 

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has said that Denmark does not rule out the possibility of recognizing a Palestinian state if it is based on democratic principles. According to the French news agency AFP, Mette Frederiksen told reporters on Tuesday that "we are not refusing to recognize Palestine as a state. We have been in favor of it for a long time. This is what we want. But we have to ensure that it will be a democratic state."

More than 10,000 people demonstrated in central Copenhagen on Sunday against the war in Gaza and demanded that Denmark recognize a Palestinian state.

In an interview with a Danish daily on August 16, Mette Frederiksen called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a problem in itself,” and said his government was “overstepping the line.”

In a Facebook post on the same day, she wrote that “Netanyahu’s continued and violent actions in Gaza are unacceptable.”

The Danish prime minister said that she had supported Israel’s right to eliminate the “Hamas threat” since the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Frederiksen stressed that recognizing a Palestinian state must be for the “right purpose.”

She said that “it should happen when it is truly beneficial for the two-state solution.” And when a sustainable and democratic Palestinian state can be guaranteed.’

According to AFP, 1,219 people were killed in Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, the majority of whom were civilians.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 62,744 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israel’s retaliation, the majority of whom were civilians.