Arab and Islamic countries demanded that the UN Security Council “force Israel to stop its policies.” The countries gathered at the summit regretted the international inaction.
The leaders of more than 50 Arab and Islamic countries decided this Monday, during an extraordinary summit, to urge the international community to “freeze Israel’s participation in the UN” and ban arms export for the Jewish State.
According to the final communiqué of the summit, held in Riyadh, the leaders of these countries expressed “the need mobilize international support to freeze Israel’s participation in the United Nations.”following a similar request submitted by Malaysia in early November.
Furthermore, they demanded that the UN Security Council “force Israel to stop its policies” and that all governments in the world “prohibit the export or transfer of weapons” to the Jewish State, with the “objective of forcing” the Israeli executive to “respect international law.”
This demand comes after the leaders of these member states of the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) denounced, during the summit, the “inaction of the international community” to pressure Israel to stop the wars in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.
In the same way, denounced “double standards in the application of international law” and the Charter of the United Nations, considering that “this duality seriously undermines the credibility of the States that protect Israel from being held accountable.”
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Regarding this aspect, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Farhan, regretted, in a press conference at the end of the summit, the “inaction on the part of the international community and its institutions” to put pressure on Israel, at a time when this work must be done “to achieve justice and apply international law.”
“The summit aims for us all to listen to the Arab and Islamic world and understand that we are outraged by the crimes and violations committed by Israel (…) The two-state solution is the path to peace in the region,” he stated. defending the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
Bin Farhan also added that “The two-state solution was dying slowly, but now there is a great consensus among the international community,” which he considered “a great advance.”
Also the secretary general of the Arab League, Ahmed Abulgueit, considered that the creation of a Palestinian State “it’s a matter of time”but he warned that “its creation must be accelerated” because the Islamic world “will not allow years to pass” without the application of this solution.
The two Arab politicians made these statements on a day when Israeli settler and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich stated thatthat there is consensus between the Government and the opposition “against the establishment of a Palestinian State”arguing that it would “endanger the existence of the State of Israel.”
The summit that took place this Monday takes place exactly one year after another similar one, in which the leaders of the Arab League and the OIC appealed to the cessation of hostilities in Gaza, but they failed to adopt concrete measures to achieve this objective.
The meeting, which brought together more than 50 Arab and Islamic countries was aimed at unifying positions on how to push for an end to Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanonwhich, in just over a year, killed more than 46,000 people, mainly in the Palestinian enclave.
The Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh was preceded, on Sunday, by a meeting of OIC foreign ministers, in which the head of Lebanese diplomacy, Abdullah Bou Habib, called for support for Beirut’s desire to place the Lebanese army along the border with Israel, in accordance with UN resolution 1701, to end the war.
Source: Observadora
