By Sudesh Baniya

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Doha News maps all the countries that now recognise Palestine, following a flurry of new announcements in the periphery of the UN General Assembly.

France joined five other European countries in formally recognising a Palestinian state at a high-level summit organised ahead of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York.

Andorra, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Monaco announced they were making the move alongside France, bringing the tally of UN member states recognising the state of Palestine to over 80 per cent.

“It falls on us, this responsibility, to do everything in our power to preserve the possibility of a two-state solution,” President Emmanuel Macron said during the meeting jointly chaired by France and Saudi Arabia to discuss the two-state solution.

The move came after the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Portugal announced that they were recognising the state of Palestine on Sunday.

Three major economies from the G7 bloc — France, the UK and Canada — now join what was previously an overwhelmingly non-Western group of nations in recognising Palestine, which was declared as a state by the Palestine National Council in 1988.

With the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly set to start on Tuesday, Palestinian statehood and an end to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza are set to be the main talking points.

Several European and Western nations, including Norway, Spain and Ireland, had made their announcements in 2024, in the face of the suffering in Gaza, which has only continued to worsen.

Here’s how the map looks, following the latest development:

Map accurate as of September 23.