Two parliamentarians from North Macedonia expressed their rejection of the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, and called on the country’s President Stevo Pendarovski to include soldiers from their country in the “international peacekeeping forces, to ensure the provision of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.”
The two representatives, who represent the left bloc in the Macedonian Parliament, which consists of 120 representatives, issued a nine-point statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people, in which they called on “the Parliament of the Republic of North Macedonia, in its capacity as the holder of constitutional authority and the center of parliamentary pluralism, to express its political position on the scenes of horrific, inhumane and inhuman massacres.” “Acceptable.”
The statement called on President Stevo Pendarovski to immediately recall Macedonia’s ambassador to the United Nations, as he abstained from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution to protect Palestinian civilians.
The text of the statement also “expressed its rejection of the mass attacks taking place in the devastated Gaza Strip” and condemned “the illegal Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.”
The statement published by the Nova Macedonia newspaper website included a call on the Macedonian government to recognize the independent state of Palestine and to establish diplomatic relations at the embassy level.
The representatives of the left in this former Yugoslav republic noted that the legal text of the statement “is consistent with the traditions of Yugoslav diplomacy, and is acceptable to all political activists represented in the Macedonian Parliament.”