The Ministerial Committee mandated by the Joint Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit, and chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah, yesterday held an official meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in the French capital, Paris.

The meeting was attended by Members of the Ministerial Committee. Which included Ayman Safadi, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of Jordan; Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian Foreign Minister, Riyad Malki, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Hakan Fidan, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Trkiye; Retno Marsudi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia; Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; and Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the League of Arab States. Catherine Colonna, French Foreign Minister, was also present in the meeting.

The meeting welcomed the joint mediation efforts undertaken by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which
led to an agreement on a humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip, whose starting time will be announced later, and which will continue for four days, subject to extension. It emphasized the need to build on this humanitarian truce to reach a durable and sustained ceasefire as soon as possible.

The Ministerial Committee underscored the need for the members of the Security Council and for the international community to take effective and urgent measures for a complete ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and stressed the importance of providing secure corridors for the delivery of humanitarian aid, food, water, fuel and electricity to Gaza.

The Committee urged France to play a balanced role consistent with international law and international humanitarian law, in order to reach an immediate and complete ceasefire and implement all relevant international resolutions.

It urged the international community to fulfill its responsibility and reject all forms of selectivity in the application of international legal and moral st
andards, and to protect the Palestinian people from the crimes committed by the occupation forces and settler militias in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

The meeting addressed the need to revive the peace process. In this regard, the Committee highlighted the importance of ensuring a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace, by implementing international resolutions related to the two-state solution and enabling the Palestinian people to gain their legitimate right to establish the independent and sovereign Palestinian State along the borders of 4th June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA

Kataeb Leader Samy Gemayel met with the Ambassador of Finland to Lebanon Anne Meskanen with talks featuring high on the latest developments in the region and their reprecussions on Lebanon.

During the meeting, talks stressed the necessity of protecting Lebanon by adhering to international resolutions, especially UN Resolution 1701, and the role of Finland in this context by contributing to the international peacekeeping forces tasked with maintaining peace in the south.

The meeting was attended by Kataeb Political Bureau Member Joelle Bou Abboud, Head of Kataeb Foreign Affairs Department Marwan Abadallah, as well as member of the party’s Foreign Affairs Department Ghiwa Kosseifi.

Source: National News Agency – Lebanon