フランス、６月にもパレスチナ国家承認へ マクロン大統領

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】フランスのエマニュエル・マクロン大統領は９日に放映されたインタビューで、同国は数か月以内にパレスチナ国家を承認する計画だと明らかにした。６月に米ニューヨークで開催されるイスラエル・パレスチナ紛争解決に関する国連会議で承認する可能性があるという。（写真はフランスのエマニュエル・マクロン大統領）
　今週エジプトを訪問したマクロン氏はテレビ局フランス５に「われわれは承認に向けて進まなければならず、今後数か月以内にそうするだろう」「目標としては６月にサウジアラビアと共にこの会議を主催し、そこで複数の当事者による相互承認の動きを最終決定する」と語った。
　また、「パレスチナを擁護するすべての人々がイスラエルを認めることを可能にする集団的な動き」にもなるとして、こうした承認によってフランスは「イランのようなイスラエルの存在権を否定する者との戦いで明確な姿勢を示し、地域の集団安全保障に尽力する」ことが可能になると述べた。
　フランスは長い間、イスラエルとパレスチナが平和的に共存する「２国家解決」を支持してきた。それは２０２３年１０月７日のイスラム組織ハマスによるイスラエルへの越境攻撃後も変わっていない。
　しかし、フランスがパレスチナ国家を正式に承認することは大きな政策転換を意味し、外国の国家によるこのような動きは時期尚早だと主張するイスラエルの反感を買うリスクがある。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2025/04/10-16:54）

France plans to recognise a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview broadcast Wednesday.
We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months, Macron, who this week visited Egypt, told France 5 television.
Our aim is to chair this conference with Saudi Arabia in June, where we could finalise this movement of mutual recognition by several parties, he added.
I will do it because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to participate in a collective dynamic, which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognise Israel in turn, which many of them do not do, he added.
Such recognition would allow France to be clear in our fight against those who deny Israel's right to exist -- which is the case with Iran -- and to commit ourselves to collective security in the region, he added.
France has long championed a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including after the October 7, 2023 attack by Palestinian militants Hamas on Israel.
But formal recognition by Paris of a Palestinian state would mark a major policy switch and risk antagonising Israel which insists such moves by foreign states are premature.
- 'No one will invest a cent' -
France's recognition of Palestinian statehood would be a step in the right direction in line with safeguarding the rights of the Palestinian people and the two state solution, Palestinian minister of state for foreign affairs Varsen Aghabekian Shahin told AFP.
Nearly 150 countries recognise a Palestinian state. In May 2024, Ireland, Norway and Spain announced recognition, followed by Slovenia in June, in moves partly fuelled by condemnation of Israel's bombing of Gaza that followed the October 7 attacks.
But France would be the most significant European power to recognise a Palestinian state, a move the United States has also long resisted.
In Egypt, Macron held summit talks with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II and also made clear he was strongly opposed to any displacement or annexation in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
US President Donald Trump has suggested turning Gaza into the Riviera of the Middle East with the Palestinians moving elsewhere -- a suggestion that has sparked bitter condemnation.
Macron responded that the Gaza Strip was not a real estate project.
Simplistic thinking sometimes doesn't help, he added, and, in a message to Trump said: Perhaps it would be wonderful if one day it developed in an extraordinary way, but our responsibility is to save lives, restore peace, and negotiate a political framework.
If all this doesn't exist, no one will invest. Today, no one will invest a cent in Gaza, he said.