Jeddah (UNA) - The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the joint statement issued by the six-party Arab meeting at the level of foreign ministers, which was held at the kind invitation of the Arab Republic of Egypt on February 1, 2025, and expressed its full support for the positions it contained, including the necessity of implementing the ceasefire in all its stages and provisions, in a way that ensures complete and sustainable calm, and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip.
The organization also stressed the importance of what was stated in the statement regarding the necessity of enabling the Palestinian government to assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, providing the necessary needs to ensure that the Palestinians remain in their land and return safely to their homes, and providing humanitarian and shelter assistance and the requirements for economic recovery and reconstruction.
The organization also expressed its rejection and condemnation of the policies of military aggression, colonial settlement, and Judaization of the city of Jerusalem, and any attempts to empty the Palestinian land of its people through annexation of lands, displacement, or encouraging the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land, warning that this would undermine the chances of peace and threaten to destabilize the region.
The organization also supported the statement’s emphasis on the pivotal and irreplaceable role of UNRWA, and its rejection of any attempts to undermine its existence or legal mandate, considering it a top priority from a humanitarian and relief perspective, and a testament to the collective international commitment to the rights of Palestinian refugees and an element of stability in the region.
The organization called on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards implementing international legitimacy resolutions in a way that ensures the end of the Israeli occupation and enables the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including their right to self-determination and the embodiment of the sovereignty of the independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 1967, XNUMX, with Jerusalem as its capital.
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