JEDDAH — A Saudi official stated that the insurance policies and practices of the Israeli occupation authorities represent the best menace to safety and peace, reiterating that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied Palestinian territory.
On behalf of Overseas Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Deputy Overseas Minister Eng. Waleed El-Khereiji participated on Thursday within the emergency open-ended assembly of the Government Committee on the degree of overseas ministers of the Group of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), held in Jeddah to debate Israeli choices in regards to the occupied Palestinian territory.
On the outset of his remarks, El-Khereiji thanked the State of Palestine for calling for the extraordinary assembly.
“We meet right now with a shared conviction that the insurance policies and practices of the Israeli occupation authorities represent the best menace to safety and peace, and with dedication to confront this menace by coordinating our positions, growing mechanisms of cooperation amongst us, and strengthening our joint Islamic motion,” he stated.
He added that the unprecedented Israeli aggression in opposition to the occupied Palestinian territories continues in flagrant violation of worldwide legal guidelines and humanitarian norms via measures aimed toward increasing settlement exercise, deepening annexation and trying to impose alleged Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Financial institution, undermining prospects for peace and contravening worldwide legitimacy resolutions.
El-Khereiji reaffirmed the Kingdom’s condemnation of the choice by the occupation authorities to categorise West Financial institution lands as so-called “state property,” in addition to Israeli Knesset choices calling for accelerating settlement enlargement and allowing land purchases within the West Financial institution. He stated such plans search to impose a brand new authorized and administrative actuality and undermine efforts to realize peace and stability.
“The Kingdom reiterates that there is no such thing as a sovereignty for Israel over the occupied Palestinian land,” he stated, expressing absolute rejection of those plans and all unlawful measures that violate worldwide regulation and UN Safety Council resolutions, significantly Decision 2334. He additionally condemned settlement actions aimed toward altering the demographic composition and authorized standing of the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, together with East Jerusalem.
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El-Khereiji harassed the significance of the World Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Answer in unifying worldwide efforts, mobilizing political and financial help, and advancing related implementation tracks to translate commitments into sensible steps and speed up the belief of the two-state answer. He affirmed the Kingdom’s dedication to persevering with this path with brotherly and pleasant international locations to realize a simply and complete peace that fulfills the Palestinian individuals’s aspirations for self-determination and an unbiased state according to the Arab Peace Initiative.
He stated that the New York Declaration, the great peace plan and UN Safety Council Decision 2803 represent an built-in framework aligned of their aims. He emphasised the necessity to help the Palestinian Nationwide Authority, construct its institutional capacities, and guarantee institutional and geographic linkage between Gaza and the West Financial institution to protect the unity of the Palestinian territory, whereas safeguarding the Palestinian individuals’s inalienable rights, foremost amongst them the suitable to self-determination and the suitable of return. He additionally renewed the decision for the pressing entry of humanitarian and aid assist in full coordination with worldwide mechanisms.
El-Khereiji counseled the efforts led by US President Donald Trump on this regard, noting that coordination with the US to implement the great peace plan represents a real alternative to finish the battle and transfer towards regional integration and sustainable stability.
In closing, he reaffirmed that, out of the Kingdom’s dedication to stability and peace, Saudi Arabia condemns and denounces any violation of the sovereignty of any OIC member state.
He expressed concern over rising army tensions and more and more hostile rhetoric, calling for restraint, de-escalation and resolving disputes via diplomatic means.
He harassed that sustainable peace and safety can solely be achieved via dialogue, diplomacy, mutual respect, non-interference within the inner affairs of states, and the peaceable settlement of disputes.
