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The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, will meet in his office on Friday 01/01/2010 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey, Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu and the delegation accompanying him....
31/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has expressed his deep sadness over and strongly condemned the deadly bombing that killed and injured a large number of innocent people in Karachi on Monday 28th December 2009 as well as today`s suicide blasts in the Iraqi city of Ramadi which killed more than 20 people and left the Anbar provincial governor wounded. ...
30/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned Israel's decision to issue tenders for the construction of some 700 new settlement units in East Jerusalem as part of a project that includes the construction of more than six thousand new settlement units. He affirmed that the Israeli decision represents a serious escalation that falls within an Israeli plan to judaize East Jerusalem and cut it off from its Palestinian environs....
30/12/2009
The Political Consultations Committee between the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Russian Federation held its 2nd session in Moscow on 28-29 December 2009 in the framework of formal discussions co-chaired by Ambassador Abdullahi Abdur-Rahaman Alim, Assistant Secretary General, for the OIC side, and Alexander Sultanov , Deputy Foreign Minster , for the Russian side. ...
30/12/2009
Relations between the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the OIC (COMCEC) and Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) featured prominently in the bilateral talks held at the OIC Headquarters, in Jeddah, this morning, 29 December 2009, between the delegation of H.E. Dr. Cevdet Yilmaz, Minister of State of the Republic of Turkey and the OIC General Secretariat....
29/12/2009
Upon the invitation of the government of Uzbekistan a Delegation of observers from the OIC took part in the monitoring of the legislative elections held on Sunday 27th December 2009....
28/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu received Ambassador James B Smith, who has recently been appointed as the US Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Mr. Martin R Quinn, Consul General of the United States in Jeddah on December 28, 2009 at the OIC Headquarters....
28/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) , Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has welcomed the latest UN Security Council Resolution 1907 (2009) on the territorial dispute between Eritrea and Djibouti and appealed to the international community for its full implementation with as a means of mounting pressure on Eritrea to end the continuing occupation of Djibouti territory. The Secretary General also calls on Eritrea to fully cooperate and comply with the demands contained in the Resolution....
27/12/2009
A delegation of the National Space Agency (NSA) of the Republic of Kazakhstan led by Mr. Talgat Musabayev, Chairman of the NSA and former cosmonaut was received by Amb. Sukru Tufan, Director General of the Cabinet on the behalf of the OIC Secretary General on 23 December, 2009 at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah. ...
27/12/2009
On the occasion of the advent of the Ashura Day commemoration (10th Muharram 1431 H) the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, issued the following statement:...
26/12/2009
The first meeting of the Joint High-level Committee of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the League of Arab States (LAS) convened over 23rd and 24th December 2009 at LAS headquarters in Cairo, to discuss the best ways and means to correct the stereotyped image of Arabs and Muslims. The meeting, which brought together Arab and Islamic institutions, discussed OIC reports on Islamophobia as well as documents prepared by LAS General Secretariat and by other institutions on the cultural and media activities that have been conducted or could be implemented in the future to respond to the media spin campaigns targeting Islam and Islamic civilization....
24/12/2009
Upon a kind invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt , the OIC participated in the Third Meeting of the G8 and partners in Global Peacekeeping Operations Capacity Building held on 20-21 December 2009, in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt. The meeting was attended by G8 representatives, the main peacekeeping troop contributors and a number of international and regional organizations including the UN, AU, EU, OSCE and LAS....
23/12/2009
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu went to Riyadh to attend the Ceremony honoring the winners of the Fourth Edition of the Award of His Royal Highness Prince Naif bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, Second Deputy Premier, Minister of Interior, for the Prophet's Sunnah and Contemporary Islamic Studies to be held in Riyadh tomorrow Wednesday 23 December 2009....
23/12/2009
A senior official-level meeting was held between a delegation from the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the League of Arab States on Wednesday 23rd December 2009 at the Arab League’s headquarters in Cairo, with a view to examine and adopt joint action plans and evolve an integrated vision to face up to the various prejudicial phenomena such as Islamophobia and the aggressive campaign led by certain political, media and intellectual quarters in the Western societies against Islam and Muslims....
23/12/2009
The Secretary-General of Organisation of the Islamic Conference, His Excellency, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has stated that the coordination of development assistance to member-states of the OIC was the most creative means of stimulating investments in all crucial economic sectors and achieving the desired economic growth and development....
23/12/2009
