Islamabad:
The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will meet in Jeddah this week for an extraordinary session to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and prepare a joint response after the president of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested to relocate the Palestinians of Gaza Strip.
The Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Senator Ishaq Dar, will travel to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia to participate in the extraordinary session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the ICO, which will take place on March 7 of Jeddah.
The high -level meeting will bring together foreign ministers and senior officials of the OIC member countries to discuss joint actions in response to the deterioration of the conditions in Palestine due to the ongoing Israeli aggression, the violations of the Palestinian rights and the calls to their displacement.
“As a firm defender of the Palestinian cause, Pakistan has constantly highlighted this problem on several international platforms,” says a statement issued here on Tuesday by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said that in the next OIC-CFM session, the Vice Minister and Foreign Minister would reaffirm Pakistan’s firm support to the Palestinian cause and emphasize his position of principles.
He wouled advocate for the full withdrawal of Israel from All Occupied Territories, Including Jerusalem, denounces the unacceptable proposal for further displacing Palestinians, and call for restorration of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian People, Such as their right to the ESTABLISHMENT OF A VABABLE, CONTIGUOUS, AND SOVEREIGN PALESTINIAN STATE BASED ON THE PRE-JUNE 1967 Borders, With Al-Quds al-Sharif as its capital.
In addition, regardless of the OIC-CFM, it is anticipated that the Deputy Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs will hold bilateral meetings with homologists from important OIC Member States.
Before the extraordinary meeting of the OIC, the Arab leaders gathered in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the Palestinian issue and the extravagant proposal of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, in Gaza.
The Arab leaders were expected to ratify an Egyptian proposal that would imply spending $ 53 billion to rebuild Gaza without, as Trump suggested, taking out the Palestinians from the Strip, according to a preliminary draft of the proposal.
The proposal also requires a committee of technocrats and other figures not affiliated with Hamas in charge of the territory for an initial period of six months, according to the New York Times, which has seen the draft of the Egyptian proposal.
The Arab Summit was convened in response to Mr. Trump’s proposal last month to expel the Palestinians of Gaza, send them to Egypt and Jordan and turn the territory into a tourist center, an idea that much of the world has rejected as equivalent to ethnic cleaning.
Egypt, Jordan and other Arab allies of the United States have withdrawn the plan, saying that it would destroy any remaining hope of a Palestinian State and destabilize the entire region.
Trump seemed to soften his position recently, saying that “he was not forcing” his idea of Gaza to anyone. But the Arab world is still deeply concerned. In addition to those concerns is the uncertainty surrounding the high fire in Gaza, which has stopped blood shedding there for six weeks and has seen Israel and Hamas exchange Palestinian prisoners for Israeli hostages.
