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Palestinians

Question for Foreign and Commonwealth Office

UIN 219250, tabled on 17 December 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the implications for its policies of the reasons advanced by the Swedish government for recognising Palestinian statehood.

Answered on

6 January 2015

The Swedish position to recognise a Palestinian State has not changed UK policy. It continues to be our policy that we will also recognise a Palestinian State at a time when it will best serves the objective of peace.

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