Delegation of the Ministerial Committee Assigned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit Holds an Official Meeting with the Prime Minister of Norway and Foreign Ministers of the Nordic and Benelux Countries

Date: 15/12/2023

Members of the Ministerial Committee assigned by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit, chaired by His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on Friday, December 15, 2023, in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, held an official meeting with the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway, Jonas Gahr Storhe and the Foreign Ministers of the Nordic countries (Norway - Denmark - Sweden - Finland - Iceland) and the Benelux Union countries (Netherlands - Belgium - Luxembourg), with the participation of His Excellency Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar, His Excellency the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Mr. Ayman Al-Safadi, His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the State of Palestine, Mr. Riyad Al-Maliki, His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye, Mr. Hakan Fidan, and His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha.
During the meeting, they discussed the dangerous developments in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli occupation’s continued military escalation against defenseless civilians, renewing their unified position regarding the rejection of the continuation of the Israeli occupation forces’ aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and their call for the necessity of an immediate and complete ceasefire and ensuring the protection of civilians as stipulated in international humanitarian law.
Members of the committee also called for confronting all flagrant violations committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian people, which increase the human tragedy and impede the entry of urgent humanitarian aid into the besieged Gaza Strip, stressing the importance of holding the occupation accountable for the ongoing violations in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law and international humanitarian law.
Members of the committee stressed the importance of taking serious and urgent steps to ensure the securing of relief corridors for the delivery of urgent humanitarian, food, and medical aid to the Gaza Strip, expressing their rejection of restricting the entry of humanitarian aid quickly and safely.
Members of the committee stressed the importance of creating serious political conditions for the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the borders of June 4, 1967, in accordance with the relevant international resolutions, expressing their rejection of dividing the Palestinian cause and discussing the future of the Gaza Strip in isolation from the Palestinian cause.

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