Rabat: Qatar participated in the sixth session of the Russian-Arab Cooperation Forum held in Marrakech, Morocco. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi chaired Qatar’s delegation at the forum.
In remarks before the forum, the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs pointed out that Arab region and the entire world are facing extraordinary circumstance, noting that the barbaric and brutal Israeli aggression is still ongoing against the Palestinian people since October.
He pointed out that the aggression created the most brutal and largest scale of war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity in full view of the international community which is unable to stop this heinous war that contravenes all international war laws and human rights charters. He emphasised that the Arab-Russian relationships are on solid ground of shared principles, indicating that the meeting comes to proceed with cementing cooperation between the two sides which has witnessed a quantum leap during the recent years, especially in the political and economic relationships.
Al Muraikhi highlighted that the state of polarisation the international order is witnessing imposes shoring up relations among Arab world and Russia to find a multi-polar world that achieves international legitimacy away from double standards policies that undermined the collective security system approved by the international community and threatened the international stability, peace and security. He added that the Russian role that backs restoring international peace and security in the Middle East region is appreciated, and there is an aspiration to a Russian role that backs settling and addressing the consequences of the conflict in Syria, Yemen, Sudan, and Libya, in addition to backing Arab efforts regionally and globally to halt and end the barbaric Israeli assaults against the brotherly Palestinian people. He renewed Qatar’s call for ending this war that has exceeded all limits.
He reiterated Qatar’s unwavering position on the justice of the Palestinian cause, along with the legitimate rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, affirming that the only guarantee to achieve a sustainable peace in the region is to reach a just and comprehensive solution for the Palestinian cause which is based on ending the Israeli occupation and establishing the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with the international legitimacy resolutions, Arab peace initiative and the two-state solution as agreed by the international community.
