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December 2, 2025 Peace and security
Decades after the adoption of the resolution calling for a two-state solution, the Palestinian people remain deprived of their rights, primarily the right to self-determination. This was stated by UN General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock at a meeting on the Palestinian question.
She emphasized that this issue has been discussed for 78 years, almost as long as the UN itself has existed, but Palestine has never become a full member of the Organization.
According to Baerbock, it is time to take decisive action to end this situation.
Speaking about recent events, the General Assembly President noted that the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, marked the beginning of "one of the darkest chapters" of this protracted conflict. She recalled that the two-year war in Gaza has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of civilians.
Baerbock drew attention to the humanitarian dimension of the crisis and the dire situation in Gaza: food shortages, destroyed infrastructure, and families unable to return to their homes. She also recalled the former Israeli hostages suffering the psychological effects of captivity.
“And while the horrors unfolding in Gaza have dominated the news for two years, settlement expansion, demolitions and rising settler violence in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, continue to undermine the prospects for a sovereign, independent, contiguous and viable Palestinian state,” the General Assembly President added.
Baerbock emphasized that the violence is accompanied by daily humiliations faced by West Bank residents, including children on their way to school and pregnant women trying to reach hospitals: they are stopped at checkpoints or by roadblocks. These restrictions, she said, create a reality incompatible with a peaceful future.
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be resolved through illegal occupation, de jure or de facto annexation, forced displacement, persistent terror or permanent war,” the General Assembly President said.
She emphasized that lasting peace is only possible with the existence of two states – Israel and Palestine – with mutually recognized borders and full integration into the region. In this context, Baerbock mentioned UN Security Council Resolution 2803, which enshrines a comprehensive roadmap for resolving the conflict.
She called for the "consolidation" of the ceasefire and said that humanitarian work, including the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), must continue uninterrupted to meet international obligations.
“This is not just a gesture of goodwill, but a legal obligation,” Baerbock emphasized.
Turning to the draft resolution currently before the General Assembly, Baerbock noted that the document reaffirms the key parameters of a peaceful settlement: the unity of Gaza and the West Bank, the inadmissibility of occupation, siege, forced displacement, and territorial reduction.
“The right to live in one’s own state in conditions of peace, security and dignity is not a privilege to be earned, but a right to be defended,” she recalled.
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