Official Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dr Majed bin Mohamed al-Ansari announced that HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani would begin Tuesday a tour that includes Russia and the United Kingdom as part of a tour carried out by a number of foreign ministers of fraternal countries to a number of permanent members of the UN Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Dr al-Ansari said that the tour comes in implementation of the mandate decision issued by the extraordinary joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh on Nov 11 to formulate international action to stop the war raging in Gaza.
He said that this initiative, which is undertaken on behalf of all member states of the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, aims to reach an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, exert pressure to launch a serious and genuine political process to achieve a lasting and comprehensive peace in accordance with established international references, and to take deterrent measures to stop the crimes of the colonial occupation authorities against humanity, while ensuring urgent relief corridors to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe.
He said that besides HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Arab-Islamic initiative would see the participation of Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, along with the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the State of Palestine, Turkiye, Indonesia, Nigeria, as well a the Secretary-General of the Arab League and the Secretary-General of the OIC.
HE the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim al-Thani
