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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Recognise Palestine now to avoid ‘deadly status quo’, says its UK ambassador

Husam Zomlot at a march with supporters holding banners opposing Tommy Robinson and declaring 'justice knows no borders'
Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, at a Tolpuddle Martyrs festival rally in July 2024. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

Making recognition of a Palestinian state subject to ever more conditions will only reinforce a “deadly status quo” and will be seen as siding with an apartheid regime, the Palestinian ambassador to the UK has said.

Writing in the Guardian, Husam Zomlot made an impassioned plea to the Labour government to fulfil a manifesto commitment by recognising Palestine in the run-up to a high-level UN conference on the two-state solution in New York next week.

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