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Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani army heads are set to urgent talks on the Yemen crisis. Crucially, these countries represent signatories to the Mecca Defense Pact, which vows mutual defense in the instance that any member is attacked.

Of course, the Iran-aligned Houthis have been semi-frequently targeting the Saudi kingdom's territory, gong after oil export infrastructure as well as fuel storage sites, with ballistic missiles even targeting the capital of Riyadh this month, which marked a first.


 

Both the Russian and Ukrainian governments view Turkey’s proposal for a moratorium on Black Sea shipping attacks as “positive”, but Kyiv does not expect a breakthrough soon because of Moscow’s “irrelevant” additional demands, regional diplomats familiar with the issue told Middle East Eye.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told local media on Saturday that Ankara had sent proposals to both sides, but that their positions on the Black Sea were “difficult to reconcile”.