Palestinian PM Shtayyeh Pays State Visit to Indonesia

Palestine is the only country participating in the 1955 Asian-African Conference that has yet to gain independence due to the Israeli occupation. Bilaterally, Palestine continues to seek recognition from various countries. As of September 14, 2015, some 136 countries from the 193 UN members have recognized Palestine as a state.

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The international community continues to push for a peaceful solution between Palestine and Israel based on the principle of a two-state solution, as mandated in various resolutions of the General Assembly and the UN Security Council.

However, various challenges are getting in the way of the peace process between the two, such as the United States' decision on December 6, 2017, to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and followed by the relocation of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on May 14, 2018.

Indonesia has consistently voiced the rights of the Palestinian people, including encouraging the establishment of a Palestinian state under the principle of a two-state solution, including in the implementation of the 60th Anniversary of the Asian African Conference ( AAC) in April 2015.

In the commemoration, the Declaration on Palestine was agreed to underline the support of Asian and African countries for the Palestinian struggle for independence and efforts to create a two-state solution.

Indonesia also assisted in the form of training and capacity building for 1,257 Palestinians in the fields of infrastructure, technology, information, tourism, light manufacturing, and agriculture worth $1.5 million for Palestinians under the framework of the Conference on Cooperation among East Asian Countries for Palestinian Development (CEAPAD) as well as the assistance of 20 billion Indonesia Rupiahs ($1.3 million) for construction of the Indonesian Cardiac Center at the As-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

Source: State News Antara