Paris conference wants two-state solution

paris - More than seventy countries and international organizations have reiterated on Sunday the peace conference in Paris that only a two-state solution to resolve the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. They called the two sides in the final declaration to refrain from unilateral steps that could harm the peace process.

The big absentees at the conference were Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. According to Netanyahu, the conference sought to impose his land conditions. Abbas supported the French initiative did. He later briefed by President Francois Hollande.

Israel was not only dismissive of the conference. The British Foreign Office criticized. The department criticized the fact that the Israelis and Palestinians themselves were not represented and that Israel even not standing behind the peace meeting.

Moreover, the conference took place in the run-up to a change of government in the United States, according to the British eventually have to guarantee the execution of a possible agreement. Britain itself had observer status and not supported the final declaration.

The statement continued with no mention of the plan of the upcoming US presidential Donald Trump to move in Israel's embassy of his country to Jerusalem. That, according to the US Secretary John Kerry (Foreign Affairs) have been inappropriate because the planned move is still under debate in the US