UN General Assembly 2025: Pakistan, Bangladesh specify 'pre-1967' borders for Palestine

With Palestinian statehood at the centre of this year's high-level week at the UN, Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was among the first to specify that Palestine should be recognised by the international community along no less than its "pre-1967 borders, and al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital". 

Those borders refer to the areas Israel captured in the 1967 war with Arab states: the since-occupied West Bank, as well as Gaza. The UN considers Israeli outposts there illegal, according to Security Council Resolution 446. 

Sharif also did not indicate that it should only be East Jerusalem that is the Palestinian capital, as much of the international community and pre-2017 US administrations had dictated, only al-Quds, meaning Jerusalem. 

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