The Slovenian government hopes its lawmakers will vote to recognize a Palestinian state Slovenian Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec confirmed Monday.
“Everybody [other EU member states] backs such a Slovenian step that will happen if parliament green-lights the proposal for recognizing the Palestinian state” Erjavec told the local Slovenian channel POP TV.
The minister was speaking from Brussels where Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met European foreign ministers whom he urged to recognize Palestine. Erjavec and Abbas had a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the address.
“By recognizing it (Slovenia) would strengthen Palestine’s negotiation in the Middle East peace process. We have an independent foreign policy we do not need any other state to cover our back” Erjavec said.
Of the 28 EU member states Sweden was the first to officially recognize the Palestinian state as an EU member in 2014.
