by Saudi Gazette News Staff at Saudi Gazette
The Arab League Summit called for immediate withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip and deployment of international peacekeeping forces in the occupied Palestinian territories.
In a joint communique, called “Manama Declaration,” issued at the end of the one-day summit in Manama, Bahrain on Thursday, leaders of the 22-nation Arab League reiterated their firm position for a just and comprehensive peaceful settlement of the Palestinian issue and their support for an international peace conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The 33rd summit was held under the chairmanship of Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa. Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, headed the Saudi delegation to the summit.
The Arab leaders called on the international community to advance the peace process toward achieving a just peace based on the two-state solution. “We call for the deployment of international protection and peacekeeping forces affiliated with the United Nations in the occupied Palestinian territory until the two-state solution is implemented,” the statement said.
The summit issued a collective call to convene an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations to resolve the Palestinian issue based on the two-state solution, which ends the Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories. The Arab leaders directed their foreign ministers to take immediate action to communicate with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries of the world to urge them to quickly recognize the State of Palestine.
The summit also reaffirmed the Arab League’s adherence to the freedom of maritime navigation in international waters in accordance with the rules of international law and the conventions of the law of the sea, and to guarantee freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Gulf. The leaders strongly condemned the threats to commercial shipping which threaten freedom of navigation, international trade and the interests of the countries and peoples of the world.
Highlighting Palestine as the core issue of all Arab issues, the leaders said:…
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