DAVOS, Wednesday, January 22, 2020 (WAFA) - Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh called on Brussels and Berne to accelerate their recognition of the State of Palestine on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital, in order to counter escalating Israeli threats to annex parts of the occupied West Bank.

This came during two separate meetings with Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmès, and Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis on the sidelines of his participation in the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held today in Davos, Switzerland.

“We want the European Union to work collectively to protect the two-state solution and international resolutions which Israel violates every day through trying to impose a fait accompli that is based on plundering Palestinian lands and killing the possibility of establishing a state,” said Shtayyeh.

He stressed that the EU must lead an international effort for the post-Trump project which is still obscure, but the aggressive measures that accompanied it show that it drops the Palestinian right to Jerusalem, the return of refugees, and the two-state solution, and all that is considered final status issues.

Regarding holding elections in Jerusalem, Shtayyeh called on Belgium and Switzerland to exert pressure on Israel to facilitate its procedures, which he stressed is a right recognized in all signed agreements.

T.R.