{"id":32702,"date":"2012-11-27T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=32702"},"modified":"2012-11-27T08:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:46:22","slug":"boston-com-france-to-recognize-palestinian-state-at-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/11\/27\/boston-com-france-to-recognize-palestinian-state-at-un\/","title":{"rendered":"boston.com: France to recognize Palestinian state at UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week.<\/p>\n<p>With the announcement, France becomes the first major European country to come out in favor, dealing a setback to Israel. The timing of the announcement appears aimed at swaying other European nations.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told parliament that France has long supported Palestinian ambitions for statehood and \u2018\u2018will respond \u2018Yes&#8217;\u2019\u2019 when the issue comes up for a vote \u2018\u2018out of a concern for coherency.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians say the assembly is likely to vote Thursday on a resolution raising their status at the U.N. from an observer to a nonmember observer state, a move they believe is an important step toward a two-state solution with Israel. A Palestinian state would still not be a full General Assembly member, however.<\/p>\n<p>Click<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/world\/europe\/2012\/11\/27\/france-recognize-palestinian-state\/uYt96dWYrlO7l7sbxalJtM\/story.html\" title=\"France recognizes Palestine\" target=\"_blank\"> here <\/a>for full story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS (AP) \u2014 France announced Tuesday that it plans to vote in favor of recognizing a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly this week. With the announcement, France becomes the first major European country to come out in favor, dealing a setback to Israel. The timing of the announcement appears aimed at swaying other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32703,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32702\/revisions\/32703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}