Bangladesh has underlined the importance of mobilising international pressure on Israel for halting and reversing its policies and practices, urging the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to play its central role about this.
“The OIC must find an alternative multi-power multi-stake holder platform to push and take forward the peace process to a meaningful end,” Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said on Friday.
Speaking at the Extraordinary OIC Summit in Istanbul, he said, Bangladesh believes, at the latest developments, the OIC needs a solid and determined strategy to move ahead on the issue.
Ali added,"We must engage the international community proactively, with immediate action by the Ministerial Group
on Al Quds to reach out to important state capitals as well as with activation of OIC Ambassadors in New York, Geneva, The Hague and Brussels."
The Foreign Minister said the impunity demonstrated to Israel and the disregard shown by the US Administration to international norm and laws have outraged the people of Bangladesh.
Strongly advocating for the Palestine rights, he said, “We must reject any attempts to bring change in the status quo in the occupied Jerusalem.”
Ali condemned supporters of Israeli action and said they should realise that its [Israel’s] crimes call for only justice in a civilised world not condoning of it.
He said the OIC must move all important international fora, including the UN, and should direct its efforts in all licit avenues and channels.
Foreign Minister Ali led an eight-member Bangladesh delegation at the 7th Extraordinary Summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which was held on Friday.
The summit focused on the massacre of the peaceful Palestinian civilian protesters by the Israeli forces as well as on the official opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem on May 14, UNB reported.
President of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan convened the summit in his capacity as Chair of the OIC summit in the wake of the US embassy opening in Jerusalem.
The controversial embassy relocation triggered protests by Palestinians at the border, and Israeli actions against the protesters left more than 100 dead and thouands injured.