France’s Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné has rejected the idea of recognizing Palestine as a state at the present time. “Our position is clear: the recognition of Palestine is not taboo for France,” said the minister on Wednesday after a meeting with his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz in Paris. However, the decision in favour of recognition must be beneficial, which means that it enables decisive progress at a political level, Séjourné said, stressing it has to be made at the right time. “It is not just a symbolic question or a question of political positioning, but a diplomatic instrument…