Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a two-state solution conference at the United Nations General Assembly, a rare U.S. congressional trip to China, and NATO claiming that Russia violated Estonia’s airspace. But perhaps the biggest headline this week may come from the summit’s sidelines, with France and Saudi Arabia co-hosting a conference on Monday to determine how best to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, the process of establishing a two-state solution has suffered numerous setbacks and encountered stiff resistance, and in recent years, hope for such an arrangement has all but died out. However, Paris and Riyadh gave the two-state solution a lifeline in July by proposing the New York Declaration, which calls for a “just, peaceful and lasting settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the effective implementation of the two-State solution” and lays out a road map for how to get there. This is an “important and necessary step toward achieving a just and lasting peace,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said following Sunday’s slew of recognitions.