Arab, Muslim FMs dissatisfied with disruption of UN Gaza resolutions

Arab and Muslim foreign ministers on Saturday expressed their dissatisfaction with the disruption of United Nation’s Security Council resolutions regarding the conflict in Gaza during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Saudi Foreign ministry said.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Trudeau as part of the ministers’ international tour to discuss the Gaza war, to push for humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip and to call for a ceasefire.

The members of the committee expressed their dissatisfaction “with the disruption of Security Council and United Nations resolutions demanding a ceasefire, and to take serious and urgent steps to ensure the securing of relief corridors for the delivery of urgent humanitarian, food and medical aid to the Gaza Strip,” according to the Saudi foreign ministry on Sunday.

The meeting came after The United States on Friday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have called for an immediate ceasefire in the intense fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

Weeks of fighting have left more than 17,487 people dead in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

The foreign ministers, who were in the US prior to their Canada visit, emphasized the importance of implementing “an immediate ceasefire, in order to ensure the return of security and stability to the Gaza Strip.”

The delegation reiterated its calls to the intentional community to assume its responsibility towards the accelerating events in Gaza while “expressing their concern about the widening of blatant attacks by the occupation forces on civilians and the repeated violations of international law.”

With AFP