Bassil at OIC Urges for Empirical Measures on Jerusalem
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil emphasized on Tuesday that world leaders must take practical decisions measuring with the magnitude of danger threatening Jerusalem after a US decision to recognize it as the capital of Israel, the National News Agency reported Tuesday.
Bassil, who accompanied President Michel Aoun and a high-ranking delegation to Istanbul, spoke at an emergency Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit on Jerusalem on the move by US President Donald Trump.
Bassil said the summit must come out with “decisions and practical measures that commensurate with the magnitude of danger threatening Jerusalem for what it symbolizes for Muslims, Christians and Jews.”
Bassil said the outcome of the summit must level up to the “weight” and importance of 57 states that make up the OIC.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday chairs an emergency summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body, seeking to marshal Muslim leaders towards a coordinated response to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
Erdogan, whose country holds the rotating chairmanship of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will be hoping to unite often feuding Muslim leaders into a tough final statement on the move by US President Donald Trump.
Source: Naharnet
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