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Foreign Minister Dr Khalilur Rahman departed for Saudi Arabia on Wednesday on his first official overseas visit since taking office, to attend a high-level meeting of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jeddah focusing on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.
Prime Minister’s Adviser Humayun Kabir is accompanying the Foreign Minister during the visit, according to foreign ministry sources.
The OIC is set to convene an emergency meeting of its Open-ended Executive Committee at the level of foreign ministers on Thursday at OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah.
The meeting will deliberate on recent actions by Israeli authorities aimed at expanding settlements, advancing annexation and asserting what it describes as Israeli sovereignty over parts of the occupied West Bank.
According to OIC, the emergency session is intended to help coordinate member states’ positions and consider possible responses to measures it has termed invalid, including a recent decision to initiate procedures for settling land in the occupied West Bank under the designation of “state property.”
The move is widely seen as part of broader efforts to change the legal, political and demographic character of the occupied Palestinian territory, potentially undermining prospects for a two-state solution.
