{"id":151819,"date":"2025-09-21T20:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151819\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:34:08","slug":"portugal-officially-recognises-palestinian-state-hours-after-uk-australia-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151819\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal officially recognises Palestinian State, hours after UK, Australia and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Portugal officially recognised the Palestinian state on Sunday, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Paulo Rangel announced in New York.<\/p>\n

Rangel stated a two-state solution is “the only path to a just and lasting peace”, local media reported, adding that the government reaffirms “the right of Israel to exist” and its “effective security needs,” as well as “condemning once again the atrocious terrorist attacks of October 7” carried out by Hamas.<\/p>\n

The move comes hours after Commonwealth nations, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, similarly did so ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, set to open on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More countries are expected to join the list recognizing a Palestinian state at the UN summit this week, including France, which like the UK, is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council.<\/p>\n

Israeli authorities condemned the recognition, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming it destabilises the region and strengthens the militant group.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story, and our journalists are working on bringing you the latest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By&nbspEuronews&nbspwith&nbspAP Published on 21\/09\/2025 – 21:54 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Portugal officially recognised the Palestinian state on Sunday, the country’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,9084,19205,50,9086,3517,15130,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-israel","tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-portugal","tag-the-gaza-strip","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}