World Bulletin / Mehmet Ali Kaçmaz

The conference comes despite a Saudi pledge to the United States to end its participation in the boycott, the Jerusalem Post reported.The meeting will be attended by representatives of the 57-member Organization of Islamic States, the Post reported.

"Next week, we will hold the ninth annual meeting for the boycott of Israel here in Jidda," Ambassador Salem el- Honi, high commissioner of the Organization for the Islamic Conference's (OIC) Islamic Office for the Boycott of Israel, said in a telephone interview.