Seven parliament speakers will take part in the Inter-Parliamentary Union troika meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Tehran on Tuesday to discuss the Gaza crisis, a parliamentary official announced on Sunday.

"The troika which consists of its current president, Iran, the former president, Sudan, and the next president, Mali, will be held on Tuesday and a final resolution will be issued after the parliament speakers' speeches," President of the Iranian parliament's Research Center Kazzem Jalali said in a press conference in Tehran on Sunday.

Noting that the number of parliament speakers who are due to take part in the troika meeting has not yet been finalized, he said, "The presence of 7 parliament speakers from Mali, Turkey, Sudan, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria and Iraq has been confirmed and a high-ranking delegation from Lebanon will take part in the meeting as well."

According to Fars News Agency, Jalali said that other countries, including Kuwait, the UAE, Qatar, Malaysia and Indonesia have also been invited to the meeting.

On July 14, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani held phone calls with his Malian and Sudanese counterparts Issaka Sidibé and Fatih Ezzedine al-Mansur as the previous and future chairmen of the PUIC Conference, and called for an emergency meeting of the PUIC Troika over the deadly Israeli air raids on the blockaded Gaza Strip.

EA