Denmark’s Parliament has voted down a bill to recognise a Palestinian state after its foreign minister said the necessary conditions for an independent country are lacking.
The Danish bill was first proposed in late February by four left-wing parties.
“We cannot recognise an independent Palestinian state for the sole reason that the preconditions are not really there,” Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said when the bill was first debated in parliament in April.
“We cannot support this resolution, but we wish that there will come a day where we can,” added Rasmussen, who was not present at the vote on Tuesday.
The vote followed Ireland’s, Spain’s and Norway’s formal recognition of a Palestinian state.
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