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Amb. Samir Bakr, OIC Assistant Secretary General on Palestine, received in his office at the OIC General Secretariat, Mrs. Kate Rudd, Consul General of the United Kingdom in Jeddah, and delivered to her a message from the OIC Secretary General, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, addressed to the UK Foreign Minister Mr. William Hague, concerning the residence of the late Mufti of Al Quds/Jerusalem, Haj Amine Al Husseini, which Israel has started demolishing with a view to build a new settlement project on its grounds. ...
10/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has conveyed his profound sympathy to the government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the tragic plane crash near the northwestern city of Orumiyeh on 9 January 2011 in which tens of people were unfortunately killed and dozens of others were injured. ...
10/01/2011
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) expressed his hope that the self-determination referendum, started in Southern Sudan on Sunday 9th January 2011, will be conducted in fair, free and in a peaceful atmosphere and that it will be marked by the upholding of law and transparency. He called upon all parties to abide by the principle of full neutrality and impartiality so as to allow the people of Southern Sudan whether living in the South or in the North, to make their free choice in this future-determining referendum for Sudan....
10/01/2011
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, strongly condemned Israel for starting to demolish the residence of the late Mufti of the city of Al Quds/Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al Huseini, in the district of Sheikh Jarrah in occupied Al Quds. The Secretary General declared that the confiscation of the Mufti’s residence and then its demolition to make way for the unlawful construction of a Jewish settlement represents a flagrant violation of international law and an infraction against the Forth Geneva Accord which prohibits the occupier state from altering the existing features of the occupied territories and from confiscating private property or establishing settlers there....
09/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, will travel to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 10 January 2011 where he is expected to launch a number of humanitarian programmes initiated by the OIC to address the damages caused by the floods which hit the northern, western and southern parts of Pakistan last July and August....
08/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, lauded in a statement addressed to the meeting of the Arab-African Ministerial Committee on Darfur held in Doha on 6th January 2011 the important efforts deployed by the State of Qatar under the high patronage of the Emir of the State of Qatar, H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, in a bid to work out a peaceful, comprehensive and sustainable solution to the Darfur conflict, which would help achieve peace and security for the Darfurian people, within the framework of Sudan’s unity and sovereignty. ...
08/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the assassination of Mr. Salman Taseer, Governor of the Punjab province in Pakistan on 4 January 2011....
06/01/2011
Education, networking and human rights emphasized at the OIC Muslim minorities symposium in Warsaw...
05/01/2011
The Permanent Representative of the OIC to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Ambassador A. H. M. Moniruzzaman has, on 02 January 2011, presented his credentials to H. E. Mr. Zalmai Rassoul, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan at his office in Kabul....
05/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will leave for Islamabad, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, on Monday, 10 January 2011 to participate in the 14th Session of the General Assembly of the OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) which will be held from 11 to 13 January 2011 in Islamabad. The Secretary General is expected to have bilateral meetings with the top leaders of the country to discuss, inter alia, issues of concern and cooperation between the OIC and Pakistan....
04/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, condemned in the strongest terms the criminal and terrorist act which targeted civilians who were performing their religious rituals in a church in Alexandria, Arab Republic of Egypt at dawn on Saturday, 1 January 2011 resulting in the killing and wounding of a large number of innocent citizens. ...
01/01/2011
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has strongly condemned the latest bomb blast on 31st December 2010 at a military barracks in Abuja, the Nigerian capital....
01/01/2011
