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OIC Convenes Emergency Jeddah Meeting on West Bank Actions With Pakistan's Ishaq Dar Set to Attend

The session is expected to produce a coordinated denouncement of recent Israeli measures in the occupied West Bank.

Overview

  • The OIC Executive Committee is scheduled to meet on February 26 in Jeddah at the foreign ministers' level.
  • Diplomatic sources say Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will attend and hold bilateral talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud.
  • The agenda centers on Israel’s declaration of West Bank land as state property and the acceleration of settlement expansion.
  • Participating countries are expected to issue a collective denunciation and consider coordinated steps to counter these actions.
  • Pakistan’s Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks and criticizing settlement expansion and attempts to alter the territories’ legal status.