OIC Summit discusses US move on Jerusalem

Istanbul: His Highness Sayyid Asa’ad bin Tariq Al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs and Personal Representative to His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, left Turkey for home on Wednesday.
Sayyid Asa’ad chaired the Sultanate’s delegation at the Islamic summit held in Turkey with the participation of leaders and representatives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states.
Earlier, foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held an extraordinary meeting in preparation for the OIC Extraordinary Summit, due to be held later on Wednesday in Istanbul by the OIC’s leaders.
The Sultanate’s delegation in the meeting was led by Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs.
The ministers discussed the situation after the recognition of the US administration Jerusalem as an alleged capital of Israel, the occupying power, and moving its Embassy to the Occupied Jerusalem.
The session included speeches for Mevlut Cavuşoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Dr. Yousef bin Ahmad Al Othaimeen, OIC Secretary General and Riyad Al Maliki, Foreign Minister
of Palestine.
In their speeches, the speakers emphasised their categorical rejection of the US administration’s decision on the occupied Jerusalem. They considered it “null and void” and called it “dangerous”, which aims to change the legal status of Jerusalem and does not hold any legitimacy, as a flagrant violation of the UN Charter and International law. -ONA
Sayyid Asa’ad was accompanied by an official delegation comprising Yousuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs; Abdulmalik bin Abdullah Al Khalili, Minister of Justice; Sheikh Mohammed bin Said Al Kalbani, Minister of Social Development; Dr. Qasim bin Mohamed Al Salehi, the Sultanate’s ambassador to Turkey; Sayyid Ahmed bin Hilal Al Busaidi, the Sultanate’s ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Permanent Representative to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation; Khalifa bin Hamad Al Badi, advisor at the Office of Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs and Personal Representative to His Majesty the Sultan; Saif bin Ahmed Al Sawafi, advisor at the Office of Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of Ministers for International Relations and Cooperation Affairs and Personal Representative to His Majesty the Sultan; Sheikh Masalam bin Suhail Al Mashani, Head of International Organisations Department at the Foreign Ministry and Mohammed bin Nasser Al Wahaibi, Head of GCC Department at the Foreign Ministry.