Hesitation on the that means to be given to the umpteenth bravades of the President of the United States? Disbelief? Sideration? French political leaders didn’t jostle themselves on Wednesday, February 5, to react to Donald Trump’s proposal to empty the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants and to make it a territory managed by the United States.
The first of them, Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Republic, was not expressed. In a press release printed on Wednesday morning, the spokesperson for the Quai d’Orsay soberly recalled, with out quoting the American president, the opposition of France to “Any forced displacement of the Palestinian population of Gaza, which would constitute a serious violation of international law, an attack on the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians, but also a major obstacle to the solution to two states and a factor of major destabilization for our close partners that are Egypt and Jordan, as well as for the whole region ”.
“The way forward for Gaza should register not within the perspective of a management by a 3rd state however throughout the framework of a future Palestinian State, underneath the aegis of the Palestinian Authorityprovides the Quai d’Orsay. Hamas have to be disarmed and don’t have any share within the governance of this territory. France will proceed to mark its opposition to colonization, opposite to worldwide regulation, and to any want for unilateral annexation of the West Bank. »»
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