Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali has called for unity in the Muslim world to fight for the just cause of the Palestinian people and realise a state of Palestine, reports UNB. He made the call while addressing the 5th extraordinary OIC Summit in Jakarta yesterday, said a Foreign Ministry press release. The Summit, convened at the request of Palestine, was chaired by the President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo. A number of heads of states and governments, ministers and senior officials from OIC countries attended the Summit. President Mahmud Abbas of Palestine set the tone of the deliberations of the Summit by his opening statement on the precarious situation in occupied Palestinian territories.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister in his remarks condemned continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories and its repressive policies that cause untold sufferings to the Palestinian people. He expressed deep concern over the changing demographic character of Palestine and Al-Quds with continued expansion of settlements and evictions of the Palestinians from their land and thereby divesting Al-Quds of its historic Arab and Islamic character.
Mahmood Ali emphasised the solidarity of the Muslim Ummah to desist Israel from undertaking such illegal actions. He also supported the call for convening an international peace conference to realise globally accepted two-state solution of the Palestinian problem. The Summit adopted a draft resolution and a declaration titled 'The Jakarta Declaration on Palestine and Al-Qud Al-Sharif'.