Sayyid Badr affirms Oman's position in supporting legitimate right of Palestinians
Published: 10:11 AM,Nov 11,2023 | EDITED : 07:11 PM,Nov 11,2023
Muscat: Delegated by His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tarik, Sayyid Badr bin Hamad al Busaidy, Foreign Minister, chaired Oman's delegation at the Arab-Islamic Summit in Riyadh.
The Saudi capital is hosting the leaders of the 22 Arab countries on Saturday to consult, coordinate, and discuss ways to confront the continuing escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Highlights
Aid groups have joined pleas for a ceasefire, warning of a humanitarian 'catastrophe' in Gaza, where food, water, and medicine are in short supply.
The Arab League and the OIC were originally meant to meet separately, but the Saudi foreign ministry announced early Saturday that the blocs' summits would be combined.
The move underscores the importance of reaching 'a unified collective position that expresses the common Arab and Islamic will regarding the dangerous and unprecedented developments witnessed in Gaza and the Palestinian territories,' the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The Arab League aims to demonstrate 'how the Arabs will move on the international scene to stop the aggression, support Palestine and its people, condemn the Israeli occupation, and hold it accountable for its crimes', the bloc's assistant secretary-general, Hossam Zaki, said this week.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Riyadh on Saturday for the summit, his first Saudi trip since the two countries agreed to restore ties in March.
'The US has prevented the ceasefire in Gaza and is expanding the scope of the war,' he said before departing from Tehran.
Raisi is the first Iranian president to visit Saudi Arabia since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended an OIC meeting in the kingdom in 2012.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back in the Arab League earlier this year, are also attending.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday condemned 'what the Gaza Strip is facing from military assault, targeting of civilians, the violations of international law by the Israeli occupation authorities'.
The kingdom was scheduled to host two extraordinary summits, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit and the Arab League summit, on Saturday and Sunday.
The joint summit will replace the two separate gatherings in light of the Gaza situation, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said. The joint meeting 'will be held in response to the exceptional circumstances taking place in the Palestinian Gaza Strip as countries feel the need to unify efforts and come out with a unified collective position,' it said. The decision was taken after the Kingdom consulted with the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, according to the statement. Arab foreign ministers, who held an emergency meeting On Thursday to prepare for the summit, were divided as some countries, led by Algeria, called to cut all diplomatic ties with Israel, two delegates told Reuters.
The Saudi capital is hosting the leaders of the 22 Arab countries on Saturday to consult, coordinate, and discuss ways to confront the continuing escalation in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Highlights
Aid groups have joined pleas for a ceasefire, warning of a humanitarian 'catastrophe' in Gaza, where food, water, and medicine are in short supply.
The Arab League and the OIC were originally meant to meet separately, but the Saudi foreign ministry announced early Saturday that the blocs' summits would be combined.
The move underscores the importance of reaching 'a unified collective position that expresses the common Arab and Islamic will regarding the dangerous and unprecedented developments witnessed in Gaza and the Palestinian territories,' the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The Arab League aims to demonstrate 'how the Arabs will move on the international scene to stop the aggression, support Palestine and its people, condemn the Israeli occupation, and hold it accountable for its crimes', the bloc's assistant secretary-general, Hossam Zaki, said this week.
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Riyadh on Saturday for the summit, his first Saudi trip since the two countries agreed to restore ties in March.
'The US has prevented the ceasefire in Gaza and is expanding the scope of the war,' he said before departing from Tehran.
Raisi is the first Iranian president to visit Saudi Arabia since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended an OIC meeting in the kingdom in 2012.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who was welcomed back in the Arab League earlier this year, are also attending.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday condemned 'what the Gaza Strip is facing from military assault, targeting of civilians, the violations of international law by the Israeli occupation authorities'.
The kingdom was scheduled to host two extraordinary summits, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit and the Arab League summit, on Saturday and Sunday.
The joint summit will replace the two separate gatherings in light of the Gaza situation, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said. The joint meeting 'will be held in response to the exceptional circumstances taking place in the Palestinian Gaza Strip as countries feel the need to unify efforts and come out with a unified collective position,' it said. The decision was taken after the Kingdom consulted with the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, according to the statement. Arab foreign ministers, who held an emergency meeting On Thursday to prepare for the summit, were divided as some countries, led by Algeria, called to cut all diplomatic ties with Israel, two delegates told Reuters.