op diplomats from member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are to convene in an emergency meeting next week, as the announcement of United States President Donald Trump’s divisive Middle East peace deal revealed divisions within the Muslim world.
Meanwhile, Indonesia, as the country with the world’s largest Muslim population has asserted that the issue of Palestine “should be resolved based on the principles of the ‘two-state solution’ that respects international law and internationally agreed parameters,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement obtained by The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Trump released his long-delayed Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, which lays out a vision for future Palestinian statehood if a series of strict conditions are met. These include requiring the future Palestinian state to be "demilitarized," while formalizing Israeli sovereignty over settlements built in occupied territory, AFP reported.
The director of the Foreign Ministry’s international organization for developing countries, Kamapradipta Isnomo, said the OIC was likely to issue a response on Feb. 3, when it convenes an extraordinary ministerial meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“We are working with the OIC to issue a statement that is consistent with the previous OIC position and to also come up with a resolution that can unite the voices of all OIC members,” he told the Post.
Last November, the OIC issued a statement condemning Israeli aggression in the Gaza Strip. In a OIC summit in May, leaders of the organization also said they opposed all illegal Israeli measures aimed at changing facts in occupied Palestinian territories, including Jerusalem, and undermining a two-state peace solution.
Hamdan Basyar, a Middle East expert from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) pointed out that the OIC had already been fractured, with Saudi Arabia notoriously “tolerating” Trump, despite its official position of siding with the Palestinians.
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