(R to L) Deputy Foreign Ministers of Saudi Arabia Waleed Al-Khuraiji and Azerbaijan Yalchin Rafiyev, Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour and Jordanian Foreign Minster Ayman Safadi, attend the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on August 7, 2024. The Jeddah-based Organisation of Islamic Cooperation is holding an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers on August 7 at the request of “Palestine and Iran”, to discuss developments in the region, an OIC official said, amid regional tensions during the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
