The president of Turkey Tayyip Erdogan welcomed on Sunday the resolution of the Arab-Islamic summit proposing to hold a conference on denuclearization in the region because of Israel’s nuclear weapons.

“For the first time, we are proposing a ‘denuclearization conference’ in the region because of Israel’s nuclear weapons,” Erdogan told reporters aboard the presidential jet on his return from the Saudi capital Riyadh, where he attended the Emergency Arab-Islamic Summit meeting. on Saturday.

The resolution “condemned the hateful, extremist and racist actions and statements of the ministers of the Israeli occupation government, including the threat by one of the ministers to use nuclear weapons against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, which pose a serious threat to world peace and security, which requires the support of the conference on the creation of a zone free of nuclear weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, which will be held within the framework of the United Nations and its objectives to address this threat.”

Erdogan said that the issue of denuclearization it is very important to reveal which actors support Israel reports Anadolu.

“All the topics we planned before going to the summit were included in the final text. The text (resolution) contains many action points, which have never been said before, which define (Israeli) settlers as terrorists and even produce geostrategy,” he added.

“Now, it is of great significance that both the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Arab League have come together and taken this step (resolution) because this is the first time in the history of the two organizations that such a meeting has taken place,” he said.

For the resolution, he said they used a phrase called “breaking the siege”, adding: “An ‘action’-oriented definition was introduced, rather than the diplomatic definition.”

Underscoring the importance of the “breaking the siege” article in the resolution, he said it calls for the immediate entry of Arab, Islamic and international humanitarian aid convoys containing food, medicine and fuel into the Gaza Strip.

With fuel, water and food in short supply, Erdogan said the most important country to get involved is the US, which has influence over Israel.

“Gaza is, first and foremost, the land of the Palestinian people. The US must accept this. If (US President Joe) Biden has the approach of saying, ‘No, this is the land of the settlers or Israel, it’s not the land of the Palestinian people,’ we can’t reach an agreement,” he added.

On the approach of the French President Emmanuel Macron, Erdogan said Macron initially fully supported Israel and visited the country, but now changed his rhetoric.

At least 11,100 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza according to the Palestinian side, including 8,000 children and women.

The Israeli death toll is nearly 1,200, according to official figures.