The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation on Monday rejected US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Middle East, calling on its 57 member states not to help implement it.
The pan-Islamic body, which represents more than 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide, “rejects this US-Israeli plan as it does not meet the minimum aspirations and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people and contradicts the terms of reference of the peace process”, it said in a statement.
Trump’s plan suggests that Israel would retain control of the contested city of Jerusalem as its “undivided capital” but Palestinians would be allowed to declare a capital adjacent to Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. Iran — a member of the OIC — was not represented in Monday’s meeting, with its foreign ministry saying that the delegation was granted visas to arch rival Saudi Arabia “just hours” before the group was to convene.
They insisted on a two-state solution that includes a Palestinian state based on borders before the 1967 war — when Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza — and with east Jerusalem as its capital.In his opening remarks on Monday, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Maliki said the plan “cannot be called a peace plan because the Palestinians are not a part of it, and it eliminates all chances of peace”.
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas announced in Cairo during the Arab League meeting that he will cut all ties with Israel and the US.
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