Pakistan: No current plans to expand the "Makkah Agreement"
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The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Thursday that the Makkah Agreement concluded between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey is a "defense framework," noting that there are no plans at present to expand it to include other countries.
The spokesperson for the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said during the weekly press briefing in Islamabad that the agreement aims to enhance defense and security cooperation between the three countries, in an effort to support regional peace and stability.
This comes after the first meeting of the Strategic Political and Defense Committee emerging from the Makkah Agreement, held in Istanbul on August 31, where the three countries agreed to strengthen cooperation in the field of defense and develop military capabilities, in addition to establishing a secretariat for the agreement in Saudi Arabia, with a Secretary-General from Pakistan to head it for three years.
The agreement, which was signed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey on August 7, stipulated that any attack on one of the three countries would be considered an attack on all of them, similar to the collective defense principle stipulated in Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
