JEDDAH: Kuwait will participate in the upcoming Islamic summit due to be organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Gambia, said Kuwait’s Permanent Delegate at the OIC Mohammad Al-Mutairi.

Al-Mutairi, also Kuwait’s Consul General in Jeddah, said in a statement to KUNA that Kuwait has always sought to activate resolutions of the Islamic summits and ministerial meetings. He was speaking on holding the 15th OIC session of the Islamic Summit in the Gambian capital on May 4-5.

The consul general has indicated that Muslim nations should focus on the Palestinian cause signaling that the forthcoming summit will send strong messages to the international community in defense of the Palestinian question. The Islamic summit will address a host of issues, namely Islamophobia, fanaticism, terrorism, boosting dialogue, climatic change and food security.

He lauded Gambia’s efforts to host the Islamic summit’s 15th session, and its efforts with the International Court of Justice in the Hague on behalf of the OIC for prosecuting perpetrators of the genocides against the Muslim Rohingya.

Touching on Kuwait’s efforts to relieve Gaza, he alluded to the air bridge via which Kuwait has continuously dispatched relief supplies to the enclave and Kuwait’s recent voluntary contribution, $30 million, to the international relief agency, the UNRWA. He renewed the call upon the international community to accept Palestine as a member of the UN, affirmed the necessity that the international community abides by a ceasefire for Gaza, halt the indiscriminate bombardment on the densely populated strip, send relief supplies to the Gazans, stop coercive displacement and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. — KUNA