The Arab ministerial committee, which is open to all members and supports the State of Palestine, today, Wednesday, called on Arab countries to work with international community actors and regional and international groups to mobilize the necessary support for the State of Palestine to acquire full membership in the United Nations.

The committee demanded in its final statement, issued at its second meeting held on the sidelines of the 160th ordinary session of the Arab League Council at the level of foreign ministers at the headquarters of the General Secretariat today, Wednesday, chaired by Saudi Arabia as the President of the 32nd Arab Summit, and with the membership of Egypt, Jordan, Algeria, Palestine, Qatar, Lebanon, Morocco, Mauritania, and the Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit, to launch a dialogue with the countries that have not yet recognized the State of Palestine in order to complete the path towards its recognition as a lever for peace, security, and stability.

The committee also called for action within the international community to provide international protection for the Palestinian people against the aggression they are subjected to from the Israeli occupation forces and the terrorist settler gangs in all Palestinian cities, villages, and camps.

It called for the necessity of working with countries and regional and international organizations to hold an international conference on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly to revive the peace process with the aim of ending the occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, realizing the independence of the State of Palestine and its capital, East Jerusalem, and resolving all issues according to the principles of international law, relevant United Nations resolutions, the land-for-peace principle, and the Arab Peace Initiative of 2002.

The committee also tasked the Secretary-General with coordinating with the member countries of the committee to start establishing the necessary mechanisms for the committee's action according to the contents of this statement, grounded in the decision to establish the committee.

For his part, Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki reviewed the latest developments in the situation in Palestine, the seriousness of the ongoing Israeli violations in the occupied city of Jerusalem, which aim to change the existing legal and historical status at the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its temporal and spatial division, impose Israeli sovereignty over it, and allow extremist settlers to storm it and publicly carry out their Talmudic rituals aimed at its Judaization.