Bahrain Participates in Arab ministerial meeting on Palestinian cause

Riyadh, Nov 9 (BNA): The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, took part this afternoon in the ordinary session of the Ministerial Meeting of the Council of the Arab League, held in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to discuss the Palestinian cause. The meeting condemned the organized state terrorism, practiced by Israel and the grave violations and heinous crimes that mount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, perpetrated by the Israeli soldiers and settlers to include systematic killing, settlement, Judaization and ethnic cleansing. The council blamed the Israeli government for these heinous crimes, stressing the illegitimacy and illegality of the settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories, which violate international law, the international legitimacy’s resolutions and the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention. The Council called on the United Nations Security Council to issue a decision that would enforce its relevant resolutions, particularly the decisions on application of the Fourth Geneva Convention on the Palestinian territories, provision of international protection to the Palestinian territories including Quds and halt of the grave Israeli aggressions that constitute a threat to world peace and security. The council also called on the Palestinian people and groups to close ranks, form a national unity government and hold general elections in order to be able to confront the looming danger lying in the Israeli plans that aim to shake the Palestinian unity. It also stressed support for the Palestinian leadership in its quest for a just political solution, on the basis of an independent sovereign state of Palestine on its national territory with the holy Quds as a capital.