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<div id="divNewsDatetime">PressTV &#8211;  Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:56AM</div>
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<div id="divImageDesc">Paraguayan Foreign Minister Hector Lacognata</div>
<div id="divLead">Paraguay  has become the latest Latin American country to recognize Palestine as  “an independent and democratic state,” an official has announced.</div>
<p>Paraguayan Foreign Minister Hector Lacognata said on Friday that his  government&#8217;s decision, following similar moves by other South American  countries in recent months, is based on resolutions endorsed by the  United Nations.</p>
<p>&#8220;With the failure of negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian  Authority, the recognition of Palestine within 1967 borders is  fundamentally based on international rights as is seen repeatedly in the  United Nations resolutions related to the issue,” Reuters quoted  Lacognata as saying.</p>
<p>Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay have  recently recognized Palestinian statehood within the borders that  existed before Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War.</p>
<p>Israel objected Latin American countries&#8217; recognition of a  Palestinian state last month, labeling it as some &#8220;highly damaging  interference.&#8221; It argued that these countries were never included in the  Middle East talks.</p>
<p>Paraguay&#8217;s move comes just before a summit between Latin American  and Arab countries, which is scheduled to be held in Lima and Peru in  February.</p>
<p>More than 130 UN member states have already recognized the state of Palestine.</p>
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