Norway to host 3rd meeting of ‘international alliance’ pushing for Palestinian state
‘There is broad support for a two-state solution, but the international community must do more,’ Norwegian FM says ahead of summit; new PA prime minister, UNRWA chief set to attend

Dozens of countries will send delegates to Norway on Wednesday as part of a global alliance aiming to find a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Norway’s foreign ministry said on Monday.
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, the head of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini, and UN envoy to the Middle East Tor Wennesland are among those due to attend.
It will be the third meeting of the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, which was announced in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. The first two meetings were held in Saudia Arabia in late October and in Brussels in late November.
“While we must continue to work for an end to the war (in Gaza), we must also work for a lasting solution to the conflict that guarantees self-determination, security and justice for both the Palestinians and the Israelis,” Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said in a statement.
“There is broad support for a two-state solution, but the international community must do more to make it a reality.”
Representatives of more than 80 countries and organizations are expected to take part in the meeting, though no official Israeli delegation has been announced.

Israel was angered when several countries — including Norway — decided to recognize the Palestinian state in May last year.
The war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s brutal October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel, has revived discussions of a two-state solution. But analysts say the possibility remains more remote than ever, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — backed by US President-elect Donald Trump — opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state.
Israel also argues that pushing ahead with such a move now would be a reward for terror in the wake of the Hamas massacre, which saw some 3,000 terrorists burst across the border into Israel by land, air and sea, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 251 hostages, mostly civilians, many amid acts of brutality and sexual assault.
Norway is the guarantor of the 1993 Oslo Accords, hailed as a breakthrough in the decades-long conflict between Arabs and Jews, which created the Palestinian Authority and set up self-rule areas.