| Abstract: | Ever since 1947, the international community has been dealing with the solution of the Middle East crisis and the subsequent recognition of an independent Palestinian state. In principle, the international community had resolved the issue of Palestinian and Israeli statehood in a 1947 United Nations General Assembly resolution. This, however, was not accepted by the Palestinian side, together with its Arab allies. Israel was founded, and in the decades that followed, the Palestinians had lost the territory that was already envisioned for their independent in the separation plan. The formal recognition of the Palestinian state began in 1988 after the declaration of Palestine as an independent state by the PLO. To date, the state of Palestine has been recognized by 138 UN member states. The main problem, however, is that there is no recognition from the side of Israel. It should also be noted that Palestine has been recognized by only 8 countries in the European Union. In the last 20 years, the Slovenian parliament has also dealt with the problem of recognizing Palestine within its Foreign Policy Committee. It has considered several initiatives for the recognition of a Palestinian state, but no concrete action has been taken yet. At the same time, a legal shortcoming was also identified, as the procedure for the recognition of new countries is not precisely regulated in Slovenian legislation. In the current parliamentary practice of recognizing new states, the initiative has always come from the executive branch of the government, which is the parliament. In the case of initiatives for the recognition of Palestine, the nominees were MPs and parliamentary groups. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia advocates the recognition of Palestine, but at the appropriate time and in coordination with other EU Member States and in a regular manner. |
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