Showing posts with label recognition of Palestine State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recognition of Palestine State. Show all posts

Wednesday 18 September 2024

Recognition of Palestine State

Members of the Ministerial Committee assigned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit on developments in the Gaza Strip held a coordination meeting in Amman on Wednesday. The meeting was chaired by Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Saudi minister of foreign affairs and head of the committee.

The ministerial meeting was aimed to coordinate joint Arab and Islamic efforts during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, which will be held in New York this month.

The meeting addressed several key topics, including efforts to stop Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, the dangerous escalation in the occupied West Bank, the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe, and ensuring the delivery of humanitarian aid to all affected areas.

The ministers discussed ways to strengthen Arab and Islamic efforts during the General Assembly to support the recognition of the Palestinian state, ensure the fulfillment of the rights of the Palestinian people, and encourage security and peace in the region and the world. 

The meeting discussed joint efforts to take the necessary steps to implement the two-state solution by establishing a Palestinian state based on the June 04, 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative and relevant international initiatives.

The meeting was attended by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan Ayman Safadi; Prime Minister of Palestine and Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammad Mustafa; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain Dr. Abdullatif Al-Zayani; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Türkiye Hakan Fidan; Minister of State for Foreign Affairs of Qatar Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi; Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration of Egypt Ambassador Nabil Habash; Secretary General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit and Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Hissein Brahim Taha.

Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Jordan Naif Al-Sudairi, Director General of the Office of Saudi Foreign Minister, Abdulrahman AlDawood, and the Counsellor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr. Manal Radwan also attended the meeting.

Wednesday 5 June 2024

Recognition of Palestine State

An international media forum aimed at bolstering the drive for the global recognition of an independent Palestine State will be held on Sunday, June 09, 2024.

The Assistant Secretariat for Institutional Communication at the Muslim World League and the Union of News Agencies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (UNA-OIC) will jointly organize remotely the event titled, “Media and the Palestinian right: Practical steps to build initiatives to recognize Palestine.”

The participants at the forum include officials of the news agencies from Islamic countries, international media unions, representatives of international media, a number of international organizations, and diplomatic, cultural and religious figures.

Muhammad Al-Yami, acting director general of the Federation of Organization of Islamic Cooperation News Agencies, said that the forum will present practical steps to enhance international media cooperation on the Palestinian issue by intensifying media coverage of announcements issued by countries around the world regarding recognition of Palestine, addressing it in a positive manner, and activating the role of media in detecting and preventing war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For his part, Yasser Al-Ghamdi, director general of content at the Muslim World League, said that the forum would put forward practical initiatives aimed at employing the media more effectively in a way fostering the rights of the Palestinian people as stipulated in international laws, including recognition of their independent state, and confronting media discourses that are hostile to these legitimate human rights, taking advantage of the current supportive global situation.

The forum aims to establish a practical basis for Islamic and international media cooperation in order to support initiatives to recognize the State of Palestine and enable the Palestinian people to achieve their legitimate rights, in addition to strengthening the role of the media in resolving international crises and working to spread a culture of peace and coexistence among peoples of various countries and different civilizations.