The U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, during a press conference in Nice, on June 10, 2025. (Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFP)
The meeting was expected to be a historic turning point. The international conference on the two-state solution, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia and scheduled from June 17 to 20 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, was abruptly interrupted before it even began. The reason: regional escalation caused by Israeli strikes against Iran. But at the U.N., they refused to speak of failure. On the contrary.“We remain committed alongside France and Saudi Arabia, co-organizers of this conference, to agreeing on a new date,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, in response to questions about the cancellation of the event. He reiterated that “the secretary-general remains firmly committed to a negotiated solution based on two states, in accordance with United Nations resolutions, international law, and...
The meeting was expected to be a historic turning point. The international conference on the two-state solution, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia and scheduled from June 17 to 20 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, was abruptly interrupted before it even began. The reason: regional escalation caused by Israeli strikes against Iran. But at the U.N., they refused to speak of failure. On the contrary.“We remain committed alongside France and Saudi Arabia, co-organizers of this conference, to agreeing on a new date,” said Farhan Haq, deputy spokesperson for the U.N. secretary-general, in response to questions about the cancellation of the event. He reiterated that “the secretary-general remains firmly committed to a negotiated solution based on two states, in accordance with United Nations resolutions, international...
