Ireland: Palestinian state recognition based on 1967 borders

Ireland's Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said that his country plans to recognise the Palestinian state based on the armistice lines of 1949, or what's commonly referred to as the June 1967 borders.

"When we recognise a state, we don't recognise the government of the day, we recognise the state in terms of a permanent population of people in terms of defined borders, and in this case it's the 1967 borders," Martin told RTE radio.

That is "a defined territory involving Gaza, the West Bank and... a capital of both an Israeli state and a Palestinian state in Jerusalem," he said.

He added that formal recognition would take place on Tuesday.

Reporting by Reuters