Minister dismisses peers’ claims that UK recognition of Palestine may break international law
by Rowena Mason Whitehall editor from World news | The Guardian on (#6Z0SC)
Gareth Thomas says move is political judgment' after challenge from 40 members of House of Lords
The UK's plan to recognise a Palestinian state is compliant with international law, a minister has said, after a group of peers raised concerns that it did not meet the legal bar.
Gareth Thomas, a business minister, said it was a political judgment" that Palestine should be recognised and that the government believes it is compatible with the criteria for statehood under the Montevideo convention, a treaty signed in 1933.
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