{"id":1794,"date":"2024-02-15T02:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T02:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/1794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T09:36:19","slug":"foreign-minister-says-a-fast-track-two-state-solution-is-essential-to-save-palestinian-people-from-annihilation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/1794\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister says a fast-track two state solution is essential to save Palestinian people from annihilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister, Sayyid Badr Albusaidi, has said that the rapid creation of a Palestinian State is essential to save the Palestinian people from destitution, annihilation and death.<\/p>\n

In a speech in Oxford in the United Kingdom, Sayyid Badr said an emergency international conference must be held to agree on arrangements for implementing a two-state solution rapidly.<\/p>\n

\"Foreign<\/p>\n

\u201cThe creation of a Palestinian state is an existential necessity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is quite clear that only with the rights that sovereignty confers can the Palestinian people even hope to survive. Without a state they are condemned to a perpetual threat of destitution, annihilation and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments were made during an hour long lecture entitled \u201cTalking to Anyone for the Good of Everyone\u201d delivered at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.<\/p>\n

After the lecture Sayyid Badr spoke at a dinner in\u00a0 the Centre\u2019s Oman Hall made possible by a generous gift of His late Majesty Sultan Qaboos.<\/p>\n

\"Oxford<\/p>\n

During his lecture Sayyid Badr also said that representatives of Hamas must be included in the emergency international conference to fast-track the establishment of a Palestinian State.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to deal with the reality we inhabit. And that reality includes Hamas. The international conference will have to include them too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHamas cannot be eradicated. So, if there is ever to be peace, the peacemakers will have to find a way to talk to them. And to listen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFar too many talk mainly to their friends, and make it a point of principle to refuse to talk to those people they define as their enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConfronted with the horrifying human catastrophe in Gaza, there\u2019s a refusal to do the one thing that might open up a pathway to peace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\"Foreign<\/p>\n

In the carefully argued lecture, Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister said that new thinking is needed to adapt to the realities of the modern multipolar world.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory has moved on faster than we have. We need to catch up with history.”<\/p>\n

Calling for an end to the poisonous sectarian logic that defines identity in religious terms, he said it is time for the people of the Middle East: \u201cto see ourselves (and to be seen) as people with complex social and cultural identities, rather than defined entirely in terms of religious affiliations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not saying that the people represented in Western media as the bad guys are really the good guys. That’s just the same kind of binary thinking,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I am saying is that bad and good just aren’t helpful categories when trying to make sense of a complex and dynamic situation and act responsibly within it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are all kinds of different players with different interests and different perspectives. Only if you talk to them and listen to them, can you find out what their interests and perspectives really are and start to work out how to work with them.<\/p>\n

\"Sayyid<\/p>\n

Sayyid Badr concluded his lecture with a series of practical proposals.<\/p>\n

He said the emergency international conference charged with agreeing arrangements for Palestinian statehood must be convened by leaders of a range of countries which is properly representative of the global majority.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am concerned that the present crisis is deepening divisions between the Global South and the Global North. The last thing we need is to construct another false global division of the kind we suffered from in the Cold War\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Oman\u2019s Foreign Minister also called for reform of the United Nations Security Council, arguing that its voting structure is a relic of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not properly multilateral. The veto is part of a zero-sum logic and should be removed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

To read the full text of the lecture click here<\/a>. To watch edited highlights of the speech click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Dinner<\/p>\n

After the lecture, Sayyid Badr was the guest of honour at a dinner in the Centre\u2019s magnificent Oman Hall.<\/p>\n

In a speech to the dinner, Sayyid Badr sent the greetings of His Majesty Sultan Haitham and his best wishes to the Centre in its work<\/p>\n

\"Sayyid<\/p>\n

The lecture and dinner were attended by diplomats, academics and distinguished foreign policy experts.<\/p>\n

\"Sayyid<\/p>\n

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\"Sayyid<\/p>\n

This is an unofficial English version of an Arabic report. To view the official Arabic text,\u00a0click\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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