Tehran, YJC. Swedish Social Democratic Party member of EU parliament Jytte Guteland says her country would like to usher other EU members into the recognition of the Palestinian state.
Guteland who was speaking in live interview with Russia Today
on Tuesday said "We believe it’s important if you want to create peaceful
future to have a more balanced and more equal situation between Israel and Palestine.
And we believe that
by recognizing Palestine’s state we to the opportunity to
form a two-state solution that we would want to be the future.”
I hope that this means that we take the lead here in EU and
that other states will follow, she stated, adding "We have seen that other
member states already done it before they became state members. So we think
that this will contribute to a positive situation here.”
"I believe many people feel joy about it and they feel hope
and they will see that the surrounding world cares about how to create stable
and peaceful situation, both for the Israeli and for Palestine. That’s
important for us to contribute to safety and security and recognize the
two-state solution.”
Regarding negative responses by Israel and the US to the new
Swedish policy she noted "We believe that we should continue to have positive
relations [with Israel and the US] and we would like to work for that because
that’s important for us. And we also believe that it’s important to recognize Israel’s
situations and also have a policy that is created to bring stability and
security. But I would like to point out that our relations with the United
States are better than ever and we would like to continue that way.”