Four European countries—Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and Norway—called in a joint statement for Palestine to be admitted as a full member of the United Nations. This call came during the Madrid+ Group meeting.
The four countries emphasized that recognizing Palestine and granting it full membership in the United Nations has become a political and diplomatic necessity, not just a moral position, given the prolonged stalemate in the peace process.
This move comes as part of a growing wave of international recognition of Palestine, with 147 of the 193 UN member states having recognized the State of Palestine to date.