Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan held the first meeting of the Political and Defence Strategic Committee linked to the Makkah agreement in Istanbul and announced in a joint statement the start of steps to implement the accord.<\/p>\n
In the statement, the Istanbul meeting was described as an important stage in moving the Makkah agreement from the signing phase to implementation. The three countries also said they had agreed on the next steps to institutionalise their joint cooperation.<\/p>\n
According to the joint statement, a secretariat is to be established in Saudi Arabia to support the activities of the three countries. Pakistan will also chair the secretariat for its first three-year term.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan stressed in the statement that they will continue efforts to reduce tensions, exercise restraint and contribute to regional peace and stability. They also said they are committed to the defensive nature of this partnership and the principle of mutual respect for the sovereignty of states.<\/p>\n
The statement also said cooperation among the three countries includes enhancing defence capabilities, strengthening defence industries, and developing production and technology. The three countries also stressed the need to strengthen deterrence and collective defence among themselves and help establish peace in the region and beyond.<\/p>\n
The Makkah agreement is a framework for cooperation between Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, and the Istanbul meeting is the first session of the Political and Defence Strategic Committee related to this mechanism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan say they have begun implementing the Makkah agreement after their first strategic committee meeting in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}