President Tinubu to present Nigeria's Position on Isreali-Palestinian Deadly Conflict to Joint Arab-Islamic Summit

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President Bola Tinubu will on Monday present to the Joint Arab-Islamic Summit Nigeria’s position regarding the age-long Israeli-Palestinian deadly conflict.

The Joint Arab-Islamic Summit, which is a follow up on last year’s gathering to find permanent solution to the conflict, adjourned sitting till this year without the adoption of definite resolutions to the problem.

The lives the conflict has terminated cannot be quantified, while the misery, trauma, depression, deformation, starvation, migration, and all the negative things it has caused are immeasurable.

Now, more than ever before, the conflict is physically drawing other interest parties into it, showing signs of dangerous and unpredictable escalation.

Despite last year’s summit’s inability to adopt resolutions though, President Tinubu emphasised Nigeria’s call for an immediate ceasefire and the urgent need for a peaceful resolution.

The President is now back to the Summit to tell the world the stance Nigeria has taken on the conflict.

Although Nigeria’s participation alone has generated mixed-reactions, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Alhaji Muhammad Idris, argues that she is qualified to even go beyond mere participation.

“Unless there’s peace in the Middle East, there’s no way Nigeria would not have also issues to contend with. Already, we’re seeing movements of people around the region. Nigeria, because of her proximity, is likely to begin to draw some of the people who are escaping this conflict, and we also have our own share of issues here so we want all these states to live in peace, to live in harmony, within secured borders so that the world can be at peace”, the Minister stressed.

It is expected that resolutions adopted therefrom would possess the instrumentality to stem the tide, or at least, de-escalate it and bring back relative peace.