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<p>A Palestinian shepherd leads a donkey as his  goats graze near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim (seen  in back), near Jerusalem January 24, 2011.</p>
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<p><span class="location">LIMA</span> |          <span class="timestamp">Mon Jan 24, 2011 3:01pm EST |  | Reuters</span></p>
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<p><span class="focusParagraph"><span class="articleLocation">LIMA</span> (Reuters) &#8211; Peru said on Monday it had recognized a Palestinian state,  joining a growing number of Latin American countries in making an  endorsement the United States has called premature.</p>
<p></span><span id="midArticle_0"> </span>Israel has warned that  declarations by Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Ecuador,  among others, could undermine the Middle East peace process.</p>
<p><span id="midArticle_1"> </span>Peruvian  Foreign Minister Jose Antonio Garcia Belaunde did not specify if Peru  recognized the Palestine state along borders that existed before 1967.</p>
<p>&#8220;Palestine is recognized as a free and sovereign state,&#8221; he said on RPP radio.</p>
<p>Palestinian  President Mahmoud Abbas thanked Brazil several weeks ago for allowing  his nation to open its first embassy in the Americas and said other  countries were following suit.</p>
<p>Palestinian  authorities are hoping for a diplomatic domino effect to back their  claim for a state in all of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>Israel  disputes the Palestinian claim on all the West Bank and East Jerusalem,  land it captured from Jordan in a 1967 war and has extensively settled.</p>
<p>U.S.-sponsored  peace negotiations dating back two decades are predicated upon a  Palestinian state being delineated with Israel&#8217;s consent.</p>
<p>Direct  peace talks revived by Washington in September after a year&#8217;s  suspension collapsed within weeks. A U.S. drive to keep the process  alive via third-party talks is in limbo.</p>
<p>In  December, a senior U.S. diplomat said recognition of a Palestinian  state is premature. U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns said,  &#8220;It&#8217;s only through negotiation between the parties themselves,  Palestinians and Israelis, that we&#8217;ll be able to realize the two-state  solution.&#8221; [ID:nN10225076]</p>
<p>Israel  has called Latin American countries&#8217; recognition of a Palestinian state  &#8220;highly damaging interference&#8221; by countries that were never part of the  Middle East peace process.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Patricia Velez; editing by <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=us&amp;n=stacey.joyce&amp;">Stacey Joyce</a>)</p>
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