Ishaq Dar appreciates the role played by Egypt for facilitating humanitarian assistance for people of Gaza

CAIRO, Dec 17 (SABAH): Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar held a meeting on Tuesday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Expatriates of Egypt Badr Abdelatty on the sidelines of the D-8 Ministerial Meeting being held in Cairo.

Ishaq Dar congratulated the Egyptian government for hosting the D-8 Summit and the Ministerial Meeting and thanked Foreign Minister Abdelatty for the warm hospitality.

Appreciating the deep-rooted multifaceted ties between the two countries, the two Ministers agreed to further consolidate political, defence, cultural, economic and trade ties and people-to-people contacts.

The two Foreign Ministers discussed regional developments including the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and atrocities in the West Bank. highly criticized ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. They called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to prevent further loss of innocent Palestinian lives.

Ishaq Dar appreciated the role played by Egypt for facilitating humanitarian assistance for the people of Gaza and its diplomatic efforts for a ceasefire in occupied Palestine.

The two Foreign Ministers also expressed unequivocal support for establishment of a viable, contiguous and independent Palestinian state based on pre-June 1967 borders with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.