Foreign Ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) highlighted the Gaza ceasefire agreement, based on a plan proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, as an essential step towards achieving a lasting end to hostilities in the region.
In a statement published by BERNAMA, the foreign ministers emphasized that this development is a crucial step towards ending further suffering, loss of life, and forced displacement, while stressing the need to deliver aid to Gaza.
The statement welcomed the agreement as a step towards guaranteeing the release of all hostages and detainees, enabling the complete withdrawal of Israeli forces, and supporting the reconstruction of Gaza.
They called upon the international community to seize this momentum and resume the peace process based on a two-state solution, in accordance with international law and relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council and General Assembly.
The Gaza ceasefire agreement came into force last Friday after two years of Israeli destructive war, during which more than 67,000 Palestinians were killed and approximately 170,000 others, mostly women and children, were injured.
