The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the joint statement issued by the Arab Six-Party Meeting at the level of Foreign Ministers, which was held at the kind invitation of the Arab Republic of Egypt on 01 February 2025. The OIC expressed its full support for the positions voiced in the statement, including the need to implement the ceasefire in all its stages and provisions, in a way that ensures complete and sustainable calm, and the complete withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip.
The OIC also stressed the importance of what was stated in the statement regarding the need to enable the Palestinian government to assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, and to provide the necessary needs to ensure that the Palestinians remain in their land and return safely to their homes, and to provide humanitarian and shelter assistance and the requirements for economic recovery and reconstruction.
The OIC also expressed its rejection and condemnation of the policies of military aggression, colonial settlement, and Judaization of the city of Al-Quds, and any attempts to empty the Palestinian land of its people through annexation of lands and displacement or encouraging the transfer or uprooting of Palestinians from their land, warning that this would undermine the chances of peace and threaten to destabilize the region.
The OIC also supported the statement’s emphasis on the pivotal role that cannot be dispensed with or replaced by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and rejected any attempts to undermine its existence or legal mandate, considering this a top priority from a humanitarian and relief perspective, and constitutes evidence of the collective international commitment to the rights of Palestinian refugees, and an element of stability in the region.
The OIC called on the international community to assume its responsibilities towards implementing the resolutions of international legitimacy in a way that ensures the end of the Israeli occupation and enables the Palestinian people to regain their legitimate rights, including their right to self-determination and the establishment of the sovereign independent Palestinian state on the borders of June 4, 1967, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.
