Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud is on a mission to convince some of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council to back a ceasefire in Gaza, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday. The tour of world capitals was one of the mandates of the Arab-Islamic summit hosted in Riyadh earlier this month.

Who’s in: Joining Al Saud on the road are the PMs and foreign ministers of Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Nigeria. It also includes the Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister, Arab League Secretary Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and Organization of Islamic Cooperation Secretary General Hussein Ibrahim Taha.

FIRST STOP: Beijing, where bin Abdullah and company met yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, according to SPA. “Let us work together to quickly calm the situation in Gaza and restore peace in the Middle East as soon as possible,” Wang said, Asharq Al Awsat reported. The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Indonesia joined Al Saud for the Beijing leg of the tour, according to the Associated Press.

ALSO- KSRelief sends 15th aid flight: The fifteenth Saudi relief aircraft arrived at Egypt’s El Arish Airport carrying 31 tons of food, water, and medical supplies for Gaza as part of the Saudi Relief Campaign run by local aid agency KSRelief, Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Cairo said on X.

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