Maldives Calls for Stronger International Action to Urgently Address the Situation in Palestine

The Permanent Representative of the Maldives to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Ambassador of the Maldives to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Sareer, has reaffirmed the country’s unwavering support for the Palestinian people at the 2025 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem, held on Wednesday in Dakar, Senegal.

The conference, jointly organised by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the OIC, was held under the theme “Palestinian Oppression and Displacement in Jerusalem in the Shadow of the War: A Microcosm of the Situation Throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory”.

In his remarks at the conference, Ambassador Sareer expressed concern over the persisting hostilities and human suffering in East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza. He described the unlawful Israeli occupation as one that breeds systematic and widespread displacement, dispossession and dehumanisation. Stressing the need to put an end to violence and occupation, he stated that an immediate and permanent ceasefire, and the alleviation of the humanitarian crisis are most urgent. Ambassador Sareer also called on the international community to act decisively in support of lasting peace. 

The CEIRPP was established in 1975 by the UN General Assembly, by its resolution 3376, to recommend a programme of implementation to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their inalienable rights to self-determination without external interference, national independence and sovereignty, and to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced. The Committee’s recommendations were endorsed by the General Assembly, to which the Committee reports annually. The Maldives has been an active member of the OIC since 1976.