The Danish parliament rejected a bill on the recognition of a Palestinian state, after Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loke Rasmussen said the necessary preconditions for recognition were missing.
Ireland, Spain and Norway formally recognized a Palestinian state today, after announcing they would do so last week. They angered Israel, which called the move a “reward for terrorism” and recalled its ambassadors.
The Danish law was first proposed at the end of February by four left-wing parties.
“We cannot recognize an independent Palestinian state because the preconditions don’t really exist,” Loke Rasmussen said when the bill was first debated in parliament in April.
He did not attend the vote in the parliament today.
Denmark, after the October 7 attack by Hamas on the southern part of Israel, said that Israel “has the right to defend itself”, but recently called on the country to show restraint and stated that it must respect international law.
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