{"id":9501,"date":"2011-01-17T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-16T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=9501"},"modified":"2011-01-15T00:00:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:00:44","slug":"guyana-recognises-palestinian-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/01\/guyana-recognises-palestinian-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana Recognises Palestinian State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guyana is latest Latin American country to state a commitment to the &#8220;legitimate aspirations&#8221; of Palestinians. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Guyana\u00a0has become the\u00a0sixth Latin\u00a0American country to recognise an independent Palestinian state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is Guyana&#8217;s hope that the increasing recognition of the state of Palestine will contribute to a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the creation of lasting peace and stability in the region,&#8221; the foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Guyana&#8217;s decision, the statement said, &#8220;is in keeping with Guyana&#8217;s long-standing and unwavering solidarity with, and commitment to, the just and legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine for the exercise of their right to self-determination and to achieve a homeland of their own, independent, free, prosperous and at peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Guyana joins Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Ecuador in recognising Palestine as an independent state within the borders that existed before Israel captured the West Bank, including east Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East\u00a0war.<\/p>\n<p>The Palestinians\u00a0leadership has\u00a0increasingly lobbied nations for recognition as\u00a0direct talks\u00a0with Israel have stalled over issues including Jewish settlements on Palestinian land, border demarcation and the status of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>In a New Year&#8217;s Eve address, Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, urged the international community to come up with a new peace plan after months of US diplomacy failed to secure a settlement freeze.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Chile formally recognised the existence of a Palestinian state, but did not mention the issue of the borders.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have denounced the previous declarations of support for a Palestinian state. Chile&#8217;s recognition was described as a &#8220;useless and empty gesture&#8221; that\u00a0would not\u00a0advance peace.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/americas\/2011\/01\/201111415632686804.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 aljazeera.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Join the BDS-Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>campaign to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation, the apartheid wall, and its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong><\/span> products whose <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong><\/span>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guyana is latest Latin American country to state a commitment to the &#8220;legitimate aspirations&#8221; of Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine-israel-gaza-genocide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}