The newly upgraded status of Palestine in the United Nations is viewed as a positive step in the direction toward peace and a reaffirmation of the World Council of Churches' long-term commitment to a two-state solution, the Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary said today (November 30, 2012), according to the Ekklesia website.
"It is now up to the two sides -- Israel and Palestine -- to move this process forward," said Dr. Tveit. "The vote in the UN confirms that the two-state solution is the best way to peace in the region. Without that, the future holds yet more violence and insecurity, and continuing tragedy for both peoples."
Dr. Tveit made his comments following the decision of the UN General Assembly yesterday to acknowledge the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a "non-member observer state."
"The WCC has consistently spoken in favor of a two-state solution," Tveit recalled. Since as early as its First Assembly in 1948, the WCC has championed the rights of both Israel and Palestine to free and independent states of their own.
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