Overview

• Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany will not join Western nations seeking to recognize Palestinian statehood at the upcoming UN General Assembly.
• Merz stated that recent events in Gaza do not alter Berlin’s position, reiterating that conditions for recognition are not met.
• Foreign Minister Johannes Wadephul has emphasized that any German recognition would follow a concluded, negotiated two-state agreement.
• Germany suspended arms exports to Israel in early August, a step officials portrayed as separate from the question of state recognition.
• Merz spoke alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose government recently recognized Palestine as more than 140 UN member states already do.