The Six-Party Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a meeting regarding Palestine during the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on September 19, 2023. H.E. Mr. HisseinBrahimTaha, the OIC Secretary-General, chaired the meeting.
During the meeting, the Secretary-General delivered a speech reaffirming the OIC’s unwavering position on the issue of Palestine and Al-Quds Ash-Sharif. He called for mobilizing political and legal efforts to find a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian issue. This solution should be compliant with international law and relevant UN resolutions. The Secretary-General also called for a peace process to be relaunched under multilateral international sponsorship based on relevant international legitimacy resolutions and the Arab Peace Initiative, and a specific timetable.
Furthermore, the Secretary-General emphasized the need to redouble efforts in the UN Security Council to approve the long-awaited full membership of the State of Palestine in the United Nations.
The meeting reaffirmed the centrality of the issue of Al-Quds Ash-Sharif to the Islamic Ummah. It emphasized the necessity of preserving its Arab-Islamic character and defending the sanctity of Islamic and Christian sanctities.—PR
