Australia is under pressure from an international effort to recognize Palestinian national status as French President Emmanuel Macron, who has gathered global support for the New Middle East Peace Agreement.

France has been lobbying Western countries, including Australia and the United Kingdom, to accelerate momentum ahead of a UN-sponsored summit in New York this month, to seek a two-state solution.

There have been speculation that France is co-chairing the meeting with Saudi Arabia, which he will use to recognize Palestine in order to initiate the peace process.

Last week, Macron said recognition of Palestine was not only a “moral obligation” but also a “political necessity” as he urged European countries to “strengthen our collective stance in the next few hours and days” on Israel if the humanitarian crisis of Gaza is allowed to persist.

France, together with Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, does not recognize Palestine, compared with 147 positions in 193 UN member states.

"In addition to humanitarian tragedy, what is jeopardized is the possibility of the Palestinian state," Macron said in Singapore on Friday. "We clearly see that some people are trying to make a Palestinian state impossible. But what we defend is the political outcome of the situation."

A French Foreign Ministry spokesman confirmed in a statement to the Australian Guardian that it is working with international partners, including Australia, to bring its four priorities to take place in New York from June 17 to 20.

These are recognition of the state of Palestine, the normalization of relations with the countries in the region, the reform of Palestinian authority and the disarmament of Hamas.

"President Macron hopes that this possible recognition will be part of a broader political dynamic that will enable progress in the establishment of a Palestinian state on the one hand and in the regional and international integration of Israel on the other," the spokesperson said.

“We are working to bring as many states as possible to these goals, and we know Australia is a country with a strong affinity for this issue and is firmly committed to it.”

A spokesman for Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia “interacts with the organization’s countries and partners before the meeting”.

The spokesperson said: "The bilateral solution conference played an important role in progressing political, economic and security issues that need to be addressed to implement a lasting and lasting two-state solution."

The spokesman responded to Huang's speech last year, saying: "Australia no longer believes that recognition of the Palestinian state only occurs at the end of the negotiations, but is a way to build momentum into a two-state solution."

Professor Don Rothwell, an international law expert at the Australian National University, said the summit was a "novel process" that "reflected the French perspective and many like-minded states that needed to take another approach to trying to solve the problem".

Last week, Anthony Albanese expressed “angry” from Israel’s blockade and aid to Gaza, and his biggest rebuke to the Benjamin Netanyahu administration said speculation that there has been an imminent turn in the federal government’s position.

"It's outrageous that food and supplies are blocked among those in need in Gaza...people are starving," the prime minister said. "The idea that democracies retain supplies is an outrage."

Albanis has been known to have spoken with Israeli President Isaac Herzog, and over the past two weeks, Wong has spoken with her rival Gideon Sa'ar.

Shadow Foreign Minister Michaelia Cash said the opposition supported the Palestinian state, but only at the end of the peace process, which included the release of Hamas' hostages.

“Unrecognizing the Palestinian state, Hamas still controls Gaza,” she said. “Recognizing now that the founding of Palestine will be a reward for terrorism.

“International leaders are experiencing the greatest pressure on Hamas to release all remaining hostages immediately and unconditionally and hand over all terrorist capabilities.”

The Executive Council of Australian Jewish President Daniel Aghion said Palestine’s recognition of no plan to end Hamas’ rule simultaneously would be “a betrayal of the parties to the conflict.”