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France plans to recognize a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. “We must move towards recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron, who this week visited Egypt, told France 5 television. “Our aim is to chair this conference with Saudi Arabia in June, where we could finalize this movement of mutual recognition (of a Palestinian state) by several parties,” he added. “I will do it (...) because I believe that at some point it will be right and because I also want to participate in a collective dynamic, which must also allow all those who defend Palestine to recognize Israel in turn, which many of them do not do,” he added. Such recognition would allow France “to be clear in our fight against those who deny Israel’s right to exist -- which is the case with Iran -- and to commit ourselves to collective security in the region,” he added.