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"Mr President, I would like to add my own congratulations to the High Representative’s very lucid opening remarks. This century-old tragedy has its roots in empire. My own country, Scotland – and indeed the UK – has a bounden moral duty of obligation to the peoples of this region. Statehood has long been promised, and this is not a new discussion. Going right the way back to 1917, Balfour, a Scotsman, contemplated two states in the Balfour Declaration. The UK’s own White Paper of 1939 read ‘the objective of His Majesty’s Government is the establishment within 10 years of an independent Palestine State’. In Scotland today we support recognition, government and parliament, alongside many other countries. To those that say that negotiations with Israel should not be circumvented and that now is not the right time, I say: no, enough. That line has been used to give Israel a veto over the whole process for too long. We need to change tack, colleagues. There is no peace process worth the name. Israel’s policies account for the lion’s share of that failure, alongside our own hypocrisy and inaction. We must recognise Palestine urgently."@en1
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