Saudi Arabia welcomed on Tuesday the UK’s announcement that it intends to recognize the State of Palestine and its support for the two-state solution. A Foreign Ministry statement said the Kingdom “reiterates its call upon the international community and peace-loving countries to take serious steps toward implementing international resolutions that affirm the legitimate right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders,

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy addresses during a High-level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution at U.

France and Saudi Arabia have urged countries at the United Nations to support a new political plan that calls for a ceasefire in Gaza and sets out concrete steps toward creating a Palestinian state.