At the 59th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Manila, energy and food security emerged as the bloc's top priorities due to growing instability in the Middle East. During the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with the United States, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a US$1.5 billion strategic investment to strengthen Southeast Asia's energy security, supply chains, and aviation infrastructure.

On 24 July 2026, a “Joint Statement by Foreign Ministers of the Group of Eight Arab-Islamic States” stated that they “condemn in the strongest terms the Israeli escalation at Al Aqsa Mosque / Al Haram Al Sharif... They stress that these provocative and unacceptable actions constitute a flagrant violation of international law, the relevant United Nations resolutions,