RIYADH: The foreign ministers of Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, strongly condemned on Sunday the opening of a “purported” Somaliland embassy in Jerusalem. Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia, is opening the embassy in Jerusalem after Israel became the first, and so far only, UN member state to formally recognize the self-declared republic in December 2025.

Countries reject “unilateral measures aimed at enriching an illegal reality in occupied Jerusalem".

Türkiye and prominent regional actors condemned Somaliland’s decision to open an embassy in Jerusalem, expressing full support to the territorial integrity and political unity of…