US declares Palestine not a country
News24xx.com - The United States White House National Security Adviser, John Bolton, on Wednesday Washington stated that Palestine is no longer a country now.
Bolton, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room, said denying Palestine's status as a state was not counterproductive when the Trump administration prepared a Middle East peace plan.
"This (Palestine) is not a country now. It does not meet international legal tests on statehood," he said.
"It does not control the prescribed limits. It does not fulfill the normal function of government. There are many reasons why it is not a country," Bolton said, quoted from Sindonews, quoting The Washington Examiner, Thursday, September 4, 2018.
"(Palestine) can be a country, as the president said, but it requires diplomatic negotiations with Israel and others," Bolton continued.
The Palestine Liberation Organization, led by Yasser Arafat, declared Palestinian independence in 1988. Since then, 137 member states of the United Nations have expanded diplomatic recognition.
The Palestinian Authority has controlled several areas in the West Bank and Gaza since the Oslo Accords of 1994, but the warring factions - Hamas in Gaza, Fatah in the West Bank - have dominated the region since 2007.
Bolton, known for his hawkish foreign policy views, said there was nothing historically extraordinary about US officials denying that Palestine was a country.
"Calling it the so-called Palestinian state defines exactly what has happened, the position that the United States government has taken uniformly since 1988 when the Palestinian authority declared itself a Palestinian State," he said.
"We do not recognize him as a Palestinian State, we have consistently throughout the Democratic and Republican governments oppose the recognition of Palestine to the United Nations as a country because it is not a country."
On that occasion, Bolton also announced that the US would withdraw from the "optional protocol" of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. This decision was taken in response to the case brought by the Palestinians about the refusal to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"I announce that the president has decided that the United States will withdraw from the optional protocol and resolve the dispute to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations," Bolton said.
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