British FM Cameron: Netanyahu has not ‘comprehensively’ ruled out two-state solution

BEIRUT — British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says he told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “start talking about the things a Palestinian state can be rather than the things it can’t be,” reiterating British support for a two-state solution.

In an interview with Lebanese broadcaster LBCI aired today, Cameron says part of British policy is to say there will be a time when Britain will look to recognize a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations.

“That can’t be at the start of the process. The process needs to get going. But it doesn’t have to be at the end of the process,” he says.

Cameron, speaking during a visit to Lebanon as part of a regional tour, says Netanyahu had “not ruled out comprehensively a two-state solution.”

“My message to him was start talking about the things that a Palestinian state could be rather than the things it can’t be. So that’s what we should be working towards,” he says.