Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has made an urgent appeal to Member States, charitable humanitarian organizations in the Muslim world, and international organizations to contain the grievous situation in Somalia, and to extend aid and assistance to the Somali people in the difficult circumstances facing the country. Somalia suffers its worst drought in many years at a time when a million people face humanitarian crisis and millions more are in the throes of hunger and thirst....
07/02/2011
Ambassador Abdullah Alim, Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and Special Representative of the OIC Secretary General to Jammu and Kashmir – expressed the OIC’s full solidarity with the people of Kashmir and its sustained support for their struggle to achieve their full legitimate rights. Amb. Alim underlined the OIC’s steadfast and unequivocal position that the use of violence cannot lead to a permanent solution to the Kashmir conflict and that the real solution resides in dialogue and peaceful negotiations between the concerned parties, including the Kashmiri people. These views were underscored in a statement that Amb. Alim delivered at the annual ceremony organized by the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in Jeddah on Saturday 5th February 2011, in commemoration of the Day of Solidarity with the Kashmiri people, with the attendance of the Consul General of Pakistan in Jeddah, Mr. Abdul Salik Khan and representatives of the Pakistan and Kashmiri community along with a number of Saudi officials and representatives of the diplomatic corps....
06/02/2011
It gives me great pleasure to note that the international community is observing the World Interfaith Harmony Week on February 1-7, 2011. As Secretary General of the OIC, I take particular pride that the initiative came from the Head of an OIC Member State, His Majesty King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein of Jordan, during the ongoing 65th session of the UN General Assembly. On behalf of the OIC, I issued a statement welcoming this visionary initiative and called on all to observe the week in a befitting manner....
02/02/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has commended the people of the Republic of Niger for holding a peaceful general election on 31 January 2011....
02/02/2011
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, hailed the Republic of Surinam, an OIC Member State, for its recognition of the State of Palestine, as a free independent state, within the 1967 borders....
02/02/2011
The OIC Secretary-General, His Excellency, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has urged Heads of State and Government of West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) to increase participation of its Member States in the OIC Preferential Trade System (TPS-OIC). ...
31/01/2011
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) participated in the meeting on the role of the internet in combating terrorism and extremism, held in Riyadh from 24 – 26 January 2011 under the patronage of His Royal Highness Prince Muhammad Ibn Nayef Ibn Abdulaziz, Assistant Minister of Interior for Security Affairs....
30/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, who has been closely following with much concern the recent developments in Egypt, has called for maximum restraint and to spare the lives of the people. He appealed to all components of Egyptian society to ensure that all public and private properties are duly protected and preserved. ...
30/01/2011
The Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, welcomed the opening of the Afghan Parliament on 26 January 2011. ...
29/01/2011
The Third meeting of the Steering Committee on Health held at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah concluded its two days work on 23 January, 2011. The meeting reviewed the status of implementation of the decisions of the Islamic Conferences of Health Ministers (ICHM). Members of the Steering Committee presented reports on actions taken by them in regard to polio eradication, combating malaria and communicable diseases in the OIC countries, tobacco control, vaccine and drug production, mother child health issues as well as cooperation with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international partners....
25/01/2011
Spokesperson of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) condemned in the strongest terms the criminal and terrorist act which targeted civilians at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport on 24 January 2011 resulting in the killing and wounding of a large number of innocent citizens.
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24/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has expressed strong condemnation of the criminal bombings that targeted several Shiite processions in East Karbala on Monday 24 January 2011, leaving behind scores of innocent Iraqi casualties....
24/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has appealed to leaders of OIC Member States to intervene and lend support to ensure success of the national polio eradication programmes. At the inauguration of the third meeting of the Steering Committee on Health held at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah from 22 – 23 January 2011, the Secretary General noted that the progress recorded in combating diseases and epidemics in the OIC Member States remained slow and varied, especially with regard to polio, which is one of the critical issues that Member States must tackle seriously....
22/01/2011
New York, 19 January 2011...
20/01/2011
In coordination with the International Red Cross Organization and a number of OIC partners in humanitarian action, the Organization of the Islamic Conference concluded on Wednesday 19 January 2011, a three-day seminar which was held at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah, on the subject of International Humanitarian Law and how it compares to Islamic Sharia....
20/01/2011
