Arab League Summit calls for deployment of UN peacekeepers to occupied Palestine :Arab Leaders concluded discussions in Arab League Summit in Bahrain on Thursday with a declaration calling for the deployment of UN peacekeepers in the occupied territories and the “[convening of] an international conference under the auspices of the United Nations, to resolve the Palestinian issue on the basis of the two-state solution,” state news agency SPA reported. Aside from calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the forced displacement of the Gaza population, the declaration also addressed the situation in Libya, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on the sidelines of the summit in two separate meetings, SPA reported (here and here). He also held talks with Kuwait’s newly appointed Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Abdullah Al Sabah and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

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