麥加協議的政治與防務委員會首次開會

發生了什麼

沙烏地阿拉伯、土耳其與巴基斯坦的外交部長、國防部長與參謀總長在伊斯坦堡會面，作為麥加聯合防禦協議的戰略政治與國防委員會。他們的聯合聲明記錄了進一步將合作制度化的意向；設立一個總部設於沙烏地阿拉伯、由一位秘書長領導的秘書處，首任秘書長由巴基斯坦出任，任期三年；以及在國防工業合作、聯合技術開發與生產、三國武裝部隊之間的互通性與凝聚力方面的承諾。

THE AGREEMENT ACQUIRED INSTITUTIONS BEFORE IT ACQUIRED A TESTED PROCEDURE. This is the record that makes "three leaders signed a declaration" an inadequate description of the Makkah agreement — and it is also the record that shows what the joint statement does not contain: no consultation procedure, no threshold, no command arrangement, no allocation of forces. Eight days later came the first attacks on a signatory's territory, and there was no published mechanism to run them through.

信心：高