(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Amman April 29 -Qatar is participating in the first international conference being held in Amman Jordan. Prince Ghazi Bin Mohammad the King's Advisor for Religious and Cultural Affairs inaugurated Monday the conference deputizing for King Abdullah II.
The three-day event entitled "The Road to Al-Quds (Jerusalem)" is being attended by a number of Muslim and Christian religious scholars parliamentarians and politicians from across the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Qatar is represented to the conference by a three-member delegation comprising each of Rashid Hamad Al Mahdadi Khalid Hamad Al-Libdah who are members of the Advisory Council and Abdulrahman Darwish Al Qadi the legal adviser at the Advisory Council.
Leading figures addressed the opening session including jordanian minister of awqaf (endowments) and islamic and sancitities affairs hayel abdul hafeez Palestinian Awqaf Minister Mahmoud Al Habbash President of the Arab Parliament Ahmad Al Jarwan and Yahia Al Saud the rapporteur of the Higher Committee and spokesperson of the Conference and stressed the importance of the topics to be tackled during the conference pointing to the historic and religious importance of Jerusalem.
Al Habbash said that the Israeli occupation authorities allocated $4 billion this year to complete the Judaization of the holy city and urged Arabs and Muslims to confront the Israeli plans that target Islamic and Christian holy sites in the occupied city.
The event organised by the World Islamic Sciences and Education (WISE) University the Lower House Palestine Committee and the Muslim World League will tackle topics such as the religious significance of Al Aqsa Mosque and other Muslim and Christians sites in Jerusalem and ways in which the Arab and Muslim worlds and the international community can come to the aid of the occupied city.
For his part Yahia Al Saud said in his opening address that the developments in Arab countries over the past few years and the so-called Arab Spring affected the Palestinian issue and led to an increase in Israeli arrogance and violations against the Palestinians in the West Bank.
He also highlighted efforts of King Abdullah II in defense of the Al Aqsa Mosque and called for Arab and Islamic support to confront the Israeli schemes.
Al Jarwan on his part pointed to the agreement signed by Jordan and Palestine under which the Palestinian side "reaffirmed" the status of King Abdullah as the custodian of the holy sites in Jerusalem. The agreement he said aimed to preserve the Arab identity of the holy city.
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