NEW YORK: The Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a bilateral meeting with his Saudi Counterpart His Highness Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on the sidelines of the Special Meeting of the UN General Assembly being held at the UN Headquarters in New York to discuss the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
During the meeting, Qureshi expressed deep gratitude of the people and the government of Pakistan for the leadership of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the Palestine issue and for convening an Emergency Meeting of the OIC’s Executive Committee at the Foreign Ministers level on May 16, 2021.
Great to meet H.H FM @FaisalbinFarhan again for a constructive meeting in follow up to PM @ImranKhanPTI’s visit to the Kingdom earlier this month. Pakistan appreciates KSA’s convening of the OIC exec committee emergency meeting on #Palestine. pic.twitter.com/FmS3RxOnyV
— Shah Mahmood Qureshi (@SMQureshiPTI) May 20, 2021
The foreign minister recalled that the Pakistan-Saudi Arabia Joint Statement issued during the visit of Prime Minister Imran Khan to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on May 8, 2021, reaffirmed shared perspectives of the two brotherly Countries on the Palestinian issue.
Qureshi strongly condemned Israeli provocations; forcible and illegal evictions of Palestinians from their homes; the onslaught against Palestinian worshipers in the Holy Al-Aqsa mosque in the month of Ramadan; and the indiscriminate aerial bombardment against the Palestinians.
Shah Mahmood Qureshi also reaffirmed Pakistan’s full support for the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, especially their right to self-determination and establishment of an independent, viable and contiguous Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders and East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with relevant UN and OIC resolutions.
Matters pertaining to various bilateral aspects of the relations between the two brotherly Countries also came under discussion during the meeting.
