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Makkah Agreement Committee to Hold First Strategic Meeting in Istanbul
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Makkah Agreement Committee to Hold First Strategic Meeting in Istanbul

From Asharq Al-Awsat · () English

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  • Foreign and defense ministers and military chiefs from Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan will hold the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee in Istanbul.
  • The agenda includes regional security, defense capabilities, military interoperability, defense-industry cooperation and joint counterterrorism efforts.
  • The committee is expected to establish working mechanisms and a road map under the agreement, which treats an attack on one signatory as an attack on all three.

Istanbul will host the first meeting of the committee created under the Makkah Joint Defense Agreement, bringing together the senior foreign, defense and military officials of Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan.

The meeting will focus on international security issues and ways to improve the three countries’ defense capabilities. Officials are also expected to discuss greater interoperability among their armed forces, cooperation in defense production and research, and joint efforts against terrorism.

The committee is expected to set up a secretariat and other mechanisms for areas of cooperation it identifies. It will also work on a road map for the agreement’s next steps.

The agreement, signed in Makkah on Aug. 7, is built around deterrence, coordination and defense integration. It says an attack on one signatory will be considered an attack on all three. The arrangement is presented as open to parties that respect international law and support peaceful cooperation.

The meeting will also reaffirm the agreement’s stated aim of promoting security, peace and stability while placing cooperation and prosperity ahead of conflict. US President Donald Trump called the pact a “big, bold, and important first step” in a message posted on Truth Social on Aug. 16.

big, bold, and important first step

— Donald TrumpThe US president’s description of the agreement in a Truth Social post.
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Originally published by Asharq Al-Awsat in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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