Mecca’s two emergency Gulf, Arab League summits kick off today
The Gulf and Arab League emergency
summits called for by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz will kick off in
the holy city of Mecca on Thursday to address recent attacks in Saudi Arabia
and the UAE, while a third summit, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s
(OIC) 14th Islamic summit, is to take place in the holy city on Friday.
The three summits will tackle
Iranian threats and tensions following the sabotage of Saudi oil tankers off
the UAE coast, a rocket strike near the US Embassy in Baghdad, and a
coordinated drone attack on Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Iran-allied Houthi militia.
On Wednesday, Saudi Foreign Minister
Ibrahim bin Abdulaziz al-Assaf, speaking at the ministerial meeting of the OIC
in Jeddah, condemned the attack on the oil tankers and warned of repercussions.
He said the attacks threaten the
global economy as well as regional and global security.
King Salman called for the Gulf and
Arab League summits in conjunction with the 14th OIC summit.
The summits focus on the peace
process and Arab issues and crises.
