The foreign ministers of Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkiye — grouped informally as the R-4 — held their fifth ministerial meeting in Amman on 5 August, on the sidelines of a separate ministerial meeting on Jerusalem.1 Pakistan's Ishaq Dar, Turkiye's Hakan Fidan, Saudi Arabia's Prince Faisal bin Farhan, and Egypt's Badr Abdelatty discussed easing tensions around the Strait of Hormuz and reaffirmed support for Palestinian statehood on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.1
On the same day, Japan's Foreign Minister Motegi held a Foreign Ministers' Meeting with Panama's Javier Martinez-Acha and paid a courtesy call on President Mulino.2 The two sides agreed to deepen cooperation to keep the Panama Canal operating stably, coordinate policy toward North Korea, and advance Japan's "Free and Open Indo-Pacific" initiative, with Panama voicing interest in elevating the relationship to a strategic partnership.2