Iranian President Mohammed Khatami, current head of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), called Wednesday for an urgent meeting of the group's foreign ministers to coordinate policy against Israel, state radio reported.
"President Khatami asked OIC Secretary General Ezzedine Laraki to call an urgent meeting of the organization's foreign ministers," the radio said, without saying when or where the meeting might take place.
The purpose would be to examine the situation in the Middle East and "to adopt a coordinated initiative against the Zionist regime."
In six days of violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip which has spilled over into Arab towns and villages in Israel itself, 65 people have died, almost all of them Palestinians - TEHRAN (AFP)
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