Saudi Arabia, Turkiye, and Pakistan signed a trilateral mutual-defense treaty at Al-Safa Palace in Makkah, following a summit the three governments styled the Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit for Joint Defence.1 The agreement was signed by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the three "shall be regarded as an attack against them all."2
The pact unites a major oil exporter, a NATO member with the alliance's second-largest military, and the only Muslim-majority nuclear power — a combination analysts described as a formidable new trilateral bloc, though its practical scope and command structure remain to be worked out.3
Separately, Mexico and Peru restored diplomatic relations after more than three years of strained ties. Peru granted safe conduct to former prime minister Betssy Chavez, who had been sheltering under diplomatic asylum at Mexico's embassy in Lima since late 2025; she departed for Mexico as part of the normalization, and Peru said it reserves the right to pursue her extradition through the courts.4