As Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom plan to announce their decisions to recognise a Palestinian state, Portugal has officially declared to do the same.
In a statement on Friday, the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the actual recognition will be taking place on Sunday, a day before a high-level conference on Palestinian statehood at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that Portugal will recognise the State of Palestine,” the ministry wrote in a statement on its website. “The Official Declaration of Recognition will take place on Sunday, September 21st, before next week’s High-Level Conference,” the statement added.
