Saudi, Iranian foreign ministers discuss regional security efforts

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan held a phone call with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi to discuss regional developments and security. According to Ajel English, the conversation focused on regional developments and security.

The Dawn report also mentioned a phone call by Prince Faisal bin Farhan, this time with Pakistani Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, where they discussed regional and international developments, including matters of mutual interest at multilateral fora. They also followed up on understandings reached at the inaugural meeting of the Strategic Political and Defence Committee of the Makkah Defence Alliance, held in Istanbul.

The Makkah Defence Alliance, which also includes Turkiye, was signed on August 7 and empowers member states to treat an attack against one of them as an attack against all of them. Its inaugural meeting was held on August 31 in Istanbul.

Brief written by urgent.news from Ajel English, Dawn — 2 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.