Egypt’s el-Sisi says future Palestinian state could be ‘demilitarised’
Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (C) meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez (L) and Belgium Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (R) at the Ittihadia presidential Palace in Cairo [Egyptian Presidency via AFP]
El-Sisi spoke after a meeting with the Spanish and Belgian PMs as they try to shore up support for a peace conference.
“We said that we are ready for this state to be de-militarised, and there can also be guarantees of forces, whether NATO forces, United Nations forces, or Arab or American forces, until we achieve security for both states, the nascent Palestinian state and the Israeli state,” el-Sisi said on Friday during a joint news conference in Cairo with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
- Their two countries hold the current and upcoming rotating presidencies of the Council of the European Union, respectively.
- A political resolution which calls for a Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, has remained out of reach, el-Sisi added.
- Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters in London this week that Arab states would not want to go into a Gaza Strip that could be turned into a “wasteland” by Israel’s military offensive.
- “What are the circumstances under which any of us would want to go and be seen as the enemy and be seen as having come to clean up Israel’s mess?” he said.
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