Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud (Saudi Foreign Minister) — press conference at the UN two-state conference, 28 Jul 2025 (per Middle East Monitor): "normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state" — Saudi recognition conditioned on Palestinian statehood and self-determination.

for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state.

That position remains the same and it is based on a strong conviction that only through the establishment of a Palestinian state and only through addressing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination can we have sustainable peace.

[Source is English (Middle East Monitor), reporting Prince Faisal's press conference on the sidelines of the UN High-Level International Conference on the Two-State Solution (co-chaired by Saudi Arabia and France), New York, 28 July 2025; the remarks were likely delivered in English at the international venue. Editorial context, not a translation.] Declared position of Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud — Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia. He states the Kingdom's firm condition that "normalisation with Israel can only come through the establishment of a Palestinian state," grounded in "a strong conviction that only through the establishment of a Palestinian state and only through addressing the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination can we have sustainable peace." At the same press conference he also urged reactivating the Gaza ceasefire (with hostage release, Israeli withdrawal and unobstructed aid) and "categorically reject[ed]" separating Gaza from the rest of the Palestinian territories, occupying or besieging Gaza, or forcibly displacing Gazans (those further statements are reported by MEMO but not included verbatim above). This is the distinctive Saudi CONDITIONAL-normalization pole — a "yes, but only with a sovereign Palestinian state" — sitting between the UAE's unconditional Abraham-Accords normalization (Anwar Gargash) and the resistance camp's flat rejection of any normalization (al-Houthi, al-Hayya). [Axes: palestinian-question (normalization conditioned on statehood; two-state; anti-displacement), regional-stance, west-alignment (engages the US-led process but on Saudi terms).]