Pakistan on Friday called for translating the promises of the peace process, most recently expressed at a meeting in Annapolis, Maryland, into action to achieve a Palestinian state that would settle the Middle East conflict. “We hope the Annapolis meeting will be the beginning of the end of the tragedy of Palestine and the dawn of peace in the Holy Land,” Ambassador Munir Akram, speaking on behalf of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), told the UN General Assembly. Speaking in a debate on the Middle East situation, he said the Islamic countries had participated in the Annapolis conference at the invitation of the US to signal their commitment to peace between Israel and Palestine.He told the 192-member assembly that the OIC welcomed the commitment to start final negotiations, stressing that these should be resolved on the basis of previous agreements, resolutions, the principle of land for peace, the Madrid Peace Conference, the Road Map and the Arab Peace Initiative.