Al-Sudani and bin Salman stress the need to mobilize efforts to stop the war

Baghdad - INA

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz stressed, on Monday, the necessity of coordinating positions and mobilizing efforts to stop the war and provide relief to the brotherly Palestinian and Lebanese peoples.

The Prime Minister's Media Office stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that "Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani met with the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, on the sidelines of the joint Arab and Islamic summit, hosted by the Kingdom to discuss the ongoing Zionist aggression on Gaza and Lebanon."

The statement added that "during the meeting, bilateral relations between the two countries were discussed, which have recently witnessed development in several fields. Developments in the situation and positions, and the worsening humanitarian conditions in the occupied territories and southern Lebanon were also reviewed."

The two sides stressed according to the statement "the need to coordinate positions and mobilize efforts to stop the war and provide relief to the brotherly Palestinian and Lebanese peoples," while al-Sudani appreciated "the efforts made by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to hold the summit that Iraq had previously called for."

The Prime Minister renewed "Iraq's firm and principled position in supporting efforts aimed at preventing the expansion of the conflict in the region, and that major countries and international and UN organisations take full legal and moral responsibility to prevent the continuation of the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, and international work to provide relief to the afflicted and stop the Zionist efforts to destroy."