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Russian FM: Chances of establishing a Palestinian state are decreasing

20 April 2026 17:34 (UTC +04:00)

Chances for establishing a Palestinian state are becoming increasingly scarce: "If you look at the geographical map, chances for creating a Palestinian state are vanishing, while Israel is making official statements that there will never be such a state, only the State of Israel, with expanded borders," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), TASS reports.

The Gulf crisis will impact the CSTO region as well: "The crisis in the Gulf was triggered by the United States and Israel’s unprovoked aggression against Iran, the concurrently unfolding war in Lebanon, the expanding hostilities against Syria in a bid to try to split this state again, and, naturally, the utter stagnation aggravating the tragedy of the Palestinian people both in Gaza and the West Bank <…> This cannot but affect our region."

Those cultivating chaos in the Middle East are seeking to split the Islamic world: "No doubt that one of the key goals of those who are seeking to brew this turmoil is to widen the gap in the Islamic world. This is absolutely clear."

Farid Akbarov

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