France’s planned recognition of a Palestinian state will not include the opening of an embassy until Hamas frees the hostages it is holding in Gaza, President Emmanuel Macron has said in an interview.
“It will be, for us, a requirement very clearly before opening, for instance, an embassy in Palestine,” Macron told CBS News in an interview taped on Thursday. France says it will formally recognise a Palestinian state along with other countries [on] Monday at the United Nations.