K Shanmugam says Singapore is ‘prepared in principle’ to recognise a Palestinian state but doubts it would ‘change facts on the ground’
Singapore has said since at least last year that it was “prepared in principle” to recognise a Palestinian state, and that it would do so at an appropriate time.
Shanmugam said: “You have to ask whether recognising Palestine very immediately, where there is no viable government and there is no viable two-state solution, hurts or advances the Palestinian cause.
“[If] you recognise – what counter actions do you expect, and how do you think that it’s going to actually change facts on the ground?” he added.
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