{"id":40520,"date":"2015-05-14T08:18:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40520"},"modified":"2015-05-14T14:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T11:15:16","slug":"vatican-officially-recognizes-the-state-of-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40520","title":{"rendered":"Vatican officially recognizes the state of\u00a0Palestine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican, SANA The Vatican on Wednesday\u00a0recognized the state of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said that the recognition came within\u00a0a treaty signed with Palestine providing for\u00a0upgrading the diplomatic relations between them to\u00a0the level of states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s a recognition that the state exists&#8221;\u00a0Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican had welcomed the UN General Assembly\u00a0resolution of 2012 over recognizing a Palestinian\u00a0state and had referred to the Palestine state\u00a0since. But the treaty is the first legal document\u00a0negotiated between the Vatican and the Palestinian<br \/>\nstate.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled\u00a0to pay a visit to Vatican to meet Pope Francis\u00a0next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>About 135 states have recognized the State of\u00a0Palestine and the right of the Palestinian people\u00a0to establish their independent state.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vatican, SANA The Vatican on Wednesday\u00a0recognized the state of Palestine. The Vatican said that the recognition came within\u00a0a treaty signed with Palestine providing for\u00a0upgrading the diplomatic relations between them to\u00a0the level of states. &#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s a recognition that the state exists&#8221;\u00a0Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi\u00a0said. The Vatican had welcomed the UN General Assembly\u00a0resolution of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,100,25],"tags":[5516],"class_list":["post-40520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-news","category-political-news","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}