Members of Arab-Islamic Ministerial Committee meet UN Secretary-General

Foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries, led by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, on Wednesday met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City with Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ant?nio Guterres, to discuss developments in Gaza. Taking part in the meeting were Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, and the ministers of Qatar, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Egypt, Sameh Shukri, Palestine, Riyad al-Malki, Turkey, Hakan Fidan, and Arab League Secretary-General, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in their capacity as members of a ministerial committee tasked by a recent Arab-Islamic summit with following up on the situation in Gaza. The meeting was also attended by Indonesia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi; Malaysia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Zambry Abdul Kadir, and the UAE Minister of State, Khalifa bin Shaheen Almarar, representative of the Arab group in the Security Council. The meeti ng tackled the developments in the Gaza Strip and its environs and the humanitarian truce that led to the release of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners, in addition to efforts made to reach a sustainable ceasefire. The meeting also talked about how crucial it is that the Security Council's permanent members uphold their obligation to safeguard civilians and guarantee that international humanitarian law and other legal norms are followed. The meeting discussed the importance of implementing United Nations resolutions on the protection and security of the Palestinian people from violations committed by Israeli occupation forces, as well as returning to the path of peace by implementing international resolutions related to the two-state solution, enabling the Palestinian people to realize their fundamental rights to form an independent and sovereign Palestinian state following the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital. The members of the Ministerial Committee emphasized the significance of t he international community using all practical measures to guarantee the security of relief corridors for the timely delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The committee members reaffirmed their call for the restoration of a just, sustainable, and all-encompassing peace by putting international resolutions pertaining to the two-state solution into effect and granting the Palestinian people their right to the establishment of an independent, sovereign state modeled after June 4, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital. They reaffirmed their unequivocal opposition to all types of overt settlement and forceful displacement of the brotherly Palestinian people. Source: Jordan News Agency