"It is a sign of failure," Hassan Nasrallah said. "These summits are calls for help ...that express the failure and the inabilities in confronting the Yemeni army, popular resistance and people."
OIC summit condemns any decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
The OIC summit condemned any position adopted by an international body that supports prolonging occupation, including a U.S. decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, it said on Saturday.
The Mecca summit also refused all illegal Israeli measures aimed at changing facts in occupied Palestinian territories including Jerusalem, and undermining the two-state solution, it said in a statement.
The summit urged member countries to take "appropriate measures" against countries that move their embassies to Jerusalem, it added.
The summit refused any proposal for peaceful settlement that did not accord with Palestinians' legitimate inalienable rights, the statement said.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani had his own message for OIC leaders ahead of the summit, urging them to stay focused on the rights of Palestinians.
In a letter published
Rouhani also noted in the letter he was not invited to the Islamic summit, but expressed Iran's readiness to work with all Muslim leaders to confront the White House's so-called "Deal of the Century."
Syrian Golan Heights
The Islamic summit condemned President Trump's decision to annex the occupied Syrian Golan Heights into Israeli territory. Paragraph 17 of the joint communique' said:
"The conference called for Israel's full withdrawal from the Occupied Syrian Golan to the borders of 4 June 1967, in accordance with Security Council Resolutions Nos. 242 (1967) and 338 (1973), the principle of 'land for peace, the terms of reference of the Madrid Peace Conference and the Arab Peace Initiative adopted by the Arab Summit in Beirut in 2002.
It also affirmed non-recognition of any decision or action aiming to change the legal and demographic status of the Golan. The Conference specifically rejected and condemned the American President's decision to annex the Golan into Israeli territory, dismissing it as null and void and of no legal effect."
Tellingly, the US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus confirmed Thursday that the State Department has changed its maps to show the disputed Golan Heights as Israeli territory. Ortugas statement came after Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had received one of the updated versions.
"I know we have for sure we updated the maps," Ortagus said when asked whether the State Department had taken such steps after President Donald Trump in March officially recognised the Golan Heights as part of Israel.
Fifty years on
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