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Posted on September 4, 2025
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The US warns that recognizing a Palestinian state could lead to more problems, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. This stance may complicate ceasefire efforts.
QUITO (Reuters) -The United States has told other counties that recognition of a Palestinian state will cause more problems, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday.
"We told all these countries, we told them all, we said if you guys do this recognition stuff it's all fake, it's not even real, if you do it you're going to create problems," Rubio said from Quito, where he met with President Daniel Noboa and his Ecuadorean counterpart.
"There's going to be a response, it's going to make it harder to get a ceasefire and it may even trigger theses sorts of actions that you've seen, or at least these attempts at these actions," Rubio said, adding he would not opine on Israeli discussion of annexation of the West Bank but that it was not final.
(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Julia Symmes Cobb)
Palestinian recognition refers to the formal acknowledgment of Palestine as a sovereign state by other countries or international organizations.
Annexation is the formal act of acquiring territory by a state, often through force or legal means, and incorporating it into its own jurisdiction.
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