Uruguay, Palestine sign mutual recognition agreement
RAMALLAH (Ma'an) -- Member of PLO executive committee Saeb Erekat and Uruguay minister of foreign affairs Luis Almagro signed mutual recognition agreement on Thursday.
Accompanied by Riyad Mansour, Palestinian envoy to the United Nations, and Waid Al-Mu’aqat, Palestinian ambassador to Uruguay and Argentina, Erekat had presented documents and maps on the Israeli settlement and other issues.
The Uruguay official affirmed his country’s full support of the peace process until reaching a two-state solution on the 1967 borders and said settlements should stop as a real entrance to resume talks.
Erekat, speaking at a UN conference in Montevideo, presented a study in the main session of the conference entitled “changes in the Arab world, impacts on the peace process and the Palestinian cause.”
The recognition ceremony was held in the office of the Uruguay official and was attended by the vice president, representatives of political parties, intellectuals and economists in Uruguay and deputy of the UN secretary-general.