‘There is hope’: Australia welcomes Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza | Gaza
The Australian government welcomed the 20 -point peace plan for Gaza and said that it left the door open to a two -state solution.
Acting Prime Minister Richard Marles told the ABC Radio on Tuesday that the plan was the end of hostility of the region and seeing a flow of aid to Gaza and represented his hope for returning.
“After all, our opinion is the only way to be a permanent peace in the Middle East, if you have two states,” he said. “The plan, as stated, keeps the door open for all this. This is why we see that this place is hope.
“We are absolutely welcomed and thank the Americans for their efforts here… In the past, of course you have plans and you know, we are not there yet. But I think this represents this hope.”
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US President Donald Trump announced the plan with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who stated that Gaza will be managed by a transitional “apolitical” committee.
Trump would chair this committee and contain former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
When the government was asked whether Trump will trust Gaza to “manage”, Marles said that the board of directors would contain “very important people in the international arena”.
Marles, in response to the comments of Netanyahu if the government rejects the Hamas plan, he did not want to see the annexation of Palestinian territory in response to Israel’s comments.
“What we are playing is a real concern from the Australian government’s point of view, Mar says Marles, Marles said. “We certainly don’t want to see the annexation of these regions.”
The opposition also said that the plan represented “hope ..
Sussan Ley, Sussan Ley, Sussan Ley, Sussan Ley, “We all want to see the end of the war, and we always knew that the only peace that can mediate will be intermediary by the United States. So there is hope today,” he said.
Liberal Senator and former Australian Ambassador to Israel, Dave Sharma, said the plan show to the Today’s most detailed and comprehensive agreement since October 7.
“I think there is a good chance of success, but I think the real challenge here will make Hamas accept it,” he said. “Hamas is asked to sign his own order here.
“I think Trump’s plan foresees a future role for the Palestinian authority, and I think this is important. I think this is something Australia should support. The legitimate political body of the Palestinian people.”
The coalition said that Australia would cancel the recognition of the Palestinian state that the Prime Minister committed at the UN General Assembly at the beginning of this month.
The plan drew some criticism, including the greenery, which says that Palestinians should have the right to identify their own future ”.
Deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi criticized the participation of Trump and Blair in the plan, and said that this was not a “well -intentioned choice for the Palestinian people.
“The United States does not even accept the right to have the Palestinian’s own situation, so I do not believe that it does not continue to occupy with different faces,” Faruqi said.
