Pakistan, July 30 -- Deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said the Israel-Palestine question was a "test case" for the United Nations and the world as he addressed a high-level conference on the two-state solution in New York.

Dar was addressing a rescheduled global conference on "The Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution" at the United Nations headquarters.

The three-day moot, co-chaired by France and Saudi Arabia, comes amid renewed international efforts calling for an end to Israel's bombardment of Gaza ongoing for over 660 days, with France announcing it will formally recognise the State of Palestine.

"The Palestinian question is a test case for the United Nations an...