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Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey sign the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News, where Wikipedia excerpts are read verbatim
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  by a computer. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed the
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  Mekka Joint Defense Agreement. The Mecha Joined Defense Agreement, also
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  known as the Mecca Agreement, is a trilateral mutual defense
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  pact signed on the seventh of August twenty twenty six
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  in Mecca, Saudi Arabia by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey.
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  Signed by Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, Pakistani Prime
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  Minister Shehba Sharif, and Turkish President Rate of tayep Erduan.
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  The agreement establishes a collective defense arrangement under which an
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  armed attack against any one of the three states is
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  to be regarded as an attack against all three. The
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  agreement builds on the bilateral Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement concluded
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  between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan a few months prior in
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  September twenty twenty five, extending a comparable mutual defense commitment
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  to include Turkey. It was signed against the backdrop of
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  the twenty twenty six Iran War that began in February
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  twenty twenty six, as well as renewed fighting baines between
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  Saudi Arabia and the internationally recognized Yemeni government against the
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  Huthis in neighboring Yemen. International relations experts such as Nava
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  Forbids described the Mecca Agreement as historic and said it
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  marked the institutional beginning of a new regional security architecture,
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  not for a Middle East without United States involvement, but
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  one no longer dependent upon American power to organize its security.
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  That's it for now. See the episode notes for sources
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  and licensing. Thank you,