WNAM MONITORING: Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Murat Nurtleu participated in the Extraordinary Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on the situation in Palestine.
As the press office of the Kazakh MFA informed, those attending the session were the foreign ministers of the OIC member states, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Iran, Türkiye, and Morocco.
During the Extraordinary Session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, the member states called for immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and spoke for a speedy resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Addressing the session, Murat Nurtleu expressed particular concern in connection with the protracted humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, the only way out of which can be an early cessation of hostilities. In this context, he also proposed to use the resources of the Islamic Organization for Food Security and KazAID agency to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the residents of Gaza.
Kazakhstan called on to ramp up efforts to achieve peace, stability and security for all residents of the region, which seems especially important on the eve of the upcoming holy month of Ramadan.
The Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan welcomed the multilateral mediation efforts led by Qatar and Egypt to negotiate the ceasefire and hostage exchange between Hamas and Israel. He also praised Egypt’s role in the evacuation of Kazakhstani citizens and members of their families from Gaza for subsequent repatriation.
Minister Nurtleu reaffirmed Kazakhstan’s unchanged position as per which the only solution to the decades-long conflict is the creation of the Palestinian state within the 1967 borders based on the “two states for two peoples” formula approved by the UN.
