File photo of a group portrait prior to the start of the Extraordinary Arab and Islamic Summit in Riyadh. Photo: Egyptian Presidency
The move comes after high-level consultations with Arab leaders, including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who requested the meeting, according to the statement.
The decision was taken in coordination with Bahrain, the current president of the Arab Summit, and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States, the foreign ministry noted.
The summit takes place amid widespread condemnation of a controversial plan recently unveiled by US President Donald Trump, which proposes US control over the Gaza Strip and the displacement of its Palestinian population to Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations, transforming the territory into what Trump termed a "Riviera of the Middle East."
Egypt, Jordan, Palestinians, and Arab countries have categorically rejected all of Trump’s proposals to displace the Palestinian people from their homeland, reaffirming that the establishment of a Palestinian state based on the pre-June 4, 1967 borders under a two-state solution remains the only just resolution to the Palestinian cause.
Egypt has repeatedly reaffirmed its unequivocal rejection of any proposal or plan to liquidate the Palestinian cause by forcibly displacing Palestinians from their historic homeland, even temporarily, asserting it “would not be a party to such a plan.”
Earlier this month, an Arab ministerial meeting in Cairo reiterated rejection of Trump's proposal to displace Palestinians from the war-devastated Gaza Strip, expressing a willingness to work with the new US administration toward resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on the two-state solution.
In what seemed to be a backtrack on his previous statements, Trump said on Friday that he was in no hurry to advance his shock plan for Gaza, which envisioned the forced removal of its Palestinian residents and US control over the territory.
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