RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and the Jeddah-based Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have expressed support for the defense and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
In a speech on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Saudi delegation’s first secretary, Abeer Danesh, reiterated the Kingdom’s stand.
Danesh delivered the speech as the United Nations marked International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
OIC Secretary-General Dr. Youssef A. Al-Othaimeen, on the other hand, also sent a message to the United Nations on the occasion.
He reaffirmed the OIC’s solidarity and unwavering support to the Palestinian people in their just struggle to obtain their legitimate national rights, particularly their right to self-determination, the establishment of their independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital, and the right to return in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions.
In his message read on his behalf by the OIC representatives to the UN in New York and Geneva, he slammed Israel for the crimes and violations it had committed in the occupied Palestinian territories.
These include the policy of Judaization, settlement expansions, killing, blockade, detention of thousands of Palestinians, and the aggressions against Islamic and Christian holy sites, particularly the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The OIC secretary-general stressed the need to pursue efforts aimed at issuing a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements, and providing international guarantees and control mechanisms to ensure the implementation of international resolutions, as a true contribution to the consolidation of the two-state solution.
Al-Othaimeen reaffirmed the OIC’s support for the French efforts to hold an international peace conference and ensure multilateral sponsoring of the political process, according to a set timetable with a view to ending the Israeli occupation.
He called on Islamic states to ramp up their solidarity and support for the Palestinian people, and champion their just cause.
In a speech on Wednesday at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the Saudi delegation’s first secretary, Abeer Danesh, reiterated the Kingdom’s stand.
Danesh delivered the speech as the United Nations marked International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
OIC Secretary-General Dr. Youssef A. Al-Othaimeen, on the other hand, also sent a message to the United Nations on the occasion.
He reaffirmed the OIC’s solidarity and unwavering support to the Palestinian people in their just struggle to obtain their legitimate national rights, particularly their right to self-determination, the establishment of their independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital, and the right to return in accordance with international legitimacy resolutions.
In his message read on his behalf by the OIC representatives to the UN in New York and Geneva, he slammed Israel for the crimes and violations it had committed in the occupied Palestinian territories.
These include the policy of Judaization, settlement expansions, killing, blockade, detention of thousands of Palestinians, and the aggressions against Islamic and Christian holy sites, particularly the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The OIC secretary-general stressed the need to pursue efforts aimed at issuing a UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements, and providing international guarantees and control mechanisms to ensure the implementation of international resolutions, as a true contribution to the consolidation of the two-state solution.
Al-Othaimeen reaffirmed the OIC’s support for the French efforts to hold an international peace conference and ensure multilateral sponsoring of the political process, according to a set timetable with a view to ending the Israeli occupation.
He called on Islamic states to ramp up their solidarity and support for the Palestinian people, and champion their just cause.
