Secretary-General of the League of Arab States, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, confirmed that the Arab Summit in its 33rd session was characterized by extreme smoothness and calm and did not witness any disagreements, indicating that the Palestinian issue, the situation in Gaza, and the Rafah issue dominated the summit’s work, which confirms the sense of leaders and governments of the need to focus on this issue.
Aboul Gheit said, during a joint press conference with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdul Latif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, that the summit’s work addressed economic, political and social issues, but the Palestinian issue was the focus and foundation.
The Bahraini Foreign Minister said that the Bahrain Declaration condemned the devastating war on the Gaza Strip and the resulting killing and destruction of the Palestinian people, adding that the atmosphere of the Bahrain summit was characterized by a positive and dedicated spirit that expresses the determination of Arab leaders to strengthen Arab solidarity and unify efforts and energies to confront all the challenges facing the nation. Arabi.
He pointed out that the Arab leaders adopted the initiatives put forward by Bahrain, which are: issuing a call to hold an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations to resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of a two-state solution in order to end the Israeli occupation of all occupied Arab territories, and take immediate action and communicate with the foreign ministers of Western countries and countries of the world to urge them to recognize In the State of Palestine, providing educational services to those affected by conflicts and disputes in the region, providing health services to those affected by conflicts and conflicts in the region, improving health care, providing medicines and vaccines, and developing Arab cooperation in the field of financial technology, innovation and digital transformation.
Al-Zayani noted that Bahrain, as the initiator of the initiatives, will take the initiative to work on their implementation in cooperation and coordination with the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States and the relevant international bodies and institutions, noting that Bahrain is honored to host the international conference to resolve the Palestinian issue in support of the rights of the Palestinian people and the establishment of a just and comprehensive peace in the region. .
He said that, given the nature of developments in the Gaza Strip, the summit issued a special statement on the tragic situation in the Strip and the Israeli attack on the Rafah crossing and the resulting displacement and great difficulties in bringing in humanitarian aid, calling for activating the role of relevant international mechanisms to conduct independent and impartial investigations and hold those responsible accountable. About the crimes committed against the Palestinian people since the beginning of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The Secretary-General of the League of Arab States confirmed that there are many countries that support holding a special international conference on Palestine, a proposal adopted by the Cairo Peace Summit in 2023 in which many Arab and European countries participated, but there must be a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stability of matters, stressing that There is also a need to launch a political process for a Palestinian settlement with international support.
Aboul Gheit stressed the importance of the role of the Security Council in supporting this process, which requires convincing the five permanent members to support the establishment of an international conference for Palestine, pointing out that Bahrain has requested to host this conference, as well as Spain, which confirms that there are positive indicators for holding the conference, and he said that he should He is certain that the idea of holding an international conference on Palestine is very likely and that the issue of establishing a Palestinian state is also close, stressing that what happened in Palestine now has revealed an unprecedented flaw in this crisis and placed the world before its responsibility for the necessity of resolving this crisis as soon as possible.
The Bahraini Foreign Minister stressed that the Arab Summit sent a real and strong message to the whole world that the Arabs want peace in their region and the world, and he said that peace grants the right to life stipulated in international and human rights laws. Al-Zayani pointed out the necessity of striving to provide a safe life for future generations, stressing the necessity of striving to develop joint Arab action towards the Palestinian issue, and to move with a unified diplomatic effort to mobilize countries to recognize the Palestinian state.
The Secretary-General of the Arab League stressed that the international system is in need of reform and that what is happening has dropped claims of political morality. He said that the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip revealed the ugly face of everyone who supported the occupation. Aboul Gheit wondered about the international community’s reaction if this aggression was against European countries where blood was shed. Would the world have remained silent as is happening now towards Gaza?
He pointed out that there are many international and human rights bodies and institutions that were raising slogans to defend the rights of some individuals here or there, but they fell in the face of the brutal crimes being committed in the Gaza Strip, in which tens of thousands were killed.
In response to a question about the proposal for the presence of Arab peacekeeping forces in the Gaza Strip, Aboul Gheit stressed that everything that is happening in this context is a matter of assumptions that talk about the day after the war in Gaza. He said, “Proposals in this regard are currently only being presented in Western newspapers, and they talk about Arab or Western peacekeeping forces in Gaza. We in the Arab League are following very carefully everything that happens on this issue in the media, but no party is talking to us about what is proposed.” “.
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