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15/11/2012
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) addressed the following message to the Islamic Ummah, on the occasion of the advent of the new Hijri Year, 1434H:...
14/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, strongly condemned the brutal aggression carried out by the Israeli occupation forces against Gaza Strip, which left scores martyred and wounded. He described this continuous military escalation a heinous crime and flagrant violation of the international norms and conventions and of international law, which would threaten regional stability and security....
14/11/2012
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the agreement of the Syrian opposition reached at the concluding of its meetings in Doha on 11 November 2012 on forming the "Syrian National Coalition of Revolutionary and Opposition Forces"....
12/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, will today 12 November 2012 leave for the Republic of Djibouti to participate in the proceedings of the 39th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) from 15 – 17 November 2012....
12/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Prof. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, received the construction permission for the new OIC headquarters in Jeddah, KSA. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu had received Dr. Hani bin Muhammad Abu Rass, the Mayor of Jeddah, at his office on Wednesday 7/11/2012. During the meeting, the construction permission for the new OIC headquarters in Khuzam Gardens and Palaces in Jeddah city with a total area of 91.500 square meters was handed over. The building will include a be cone-shaped tower and a conference palace for meetings of the OIC and its subsidiary organs, in addition to a garden surrounding the building....
11/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, expressed his profound grief and sympathy over the tragic crash of a military helicopter near Siirt-Turkey carrying 17 soldiers on 10 November 2012....
10/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu sent a letter to US President Barrack H. Obama congratulating him on winning a second term and calling on him to continue his engagement with the Muslim world, which he began at the beginning of his first term....
08/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, condemned in the strongest terms the decision by the Israeli occupation authorities to approve the construction of 1213 new housing units for Israeli settlements in the occupied city of Jerusalem, and stressed that the policy of settlement expansion on Palestinian land, which aims to isolate Jerusalem from its Palestinian environment, change its demographic character and obliterate its Arab identity, is a flagrant violation of international law and the resolutions of international legitimacy. ...
07/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the grenades terrorist attacks which claimed victims in the Kingdom of Bahrain on Monday 5 November 2012....
06/11/2012
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, on 5 November 2012, in Cairo, met with the Vice President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Mr Mahmoud Makki, and briefed him on the various activities of the OIC at various levels. The Secretary General also reviewed the ongoing projects and stages of the OIC’s development. For his part, the Vice President expressed his deep appreciation for the Secretary General’s efforts, citing in particular the huge progress the OIC has witnessed and the role it has played in recent years. The two sides discussed the ongoing arrangements for holding the 12th session of the Islamic Summit Conference in Egypt. They also discussed issues relating to Muslim minorities in Myanmar and other non-OIC Member States as well as the issue of Islamophobia which is of concern to the OIC. The meeting also discussed the pivotal role being played by Egypt in the post-revolution period and means of enhancing cooperation between the two sides with a view to restoring Egypt’s leading role in supporting joint Islamic action....
05/11/2012
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, OIC Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met with Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamad Kamel Amru, at the Foreign Ministry in Cairo today Sunday 4th November, 2012. The two parties discussed the bilateral relations between the OIC and the Arab Republic of Egypt as well as a number of regional issues, foremost of which the situation in Syria. The two parties also discussed the violent actions perpetrated against the Muslim Rohingya minority in the province of Arakan in Myanmar, and exchanged views on suggested effective moves to deal positively with this issue, particularly at the level of international fora....
04/11/2012
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed his congratulations to Pope Tawardros II on his nomination as Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, at the altar lottery that took place in Cairo Sunday 4th November 2012. Ihsanoglu congratulated the Egyptian people on the occasion, and more particularly the Egyptian Coptic community on this historic nomination, and expressed the hope that the nomination of Pope Tawadros II will usher in a new promising era that will be of great benefit to the country which is now launched on a new democratic phase....
04/11/2012
The General Secretariat of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation expressed on Saturday, November 3, 2012, its deep concern over media reports of alleged torture and murder of Syrian army soldiers after being seized by militants. The OIC reaffirmed its firm position which rejects the killing of prisoners in consonance with Almighty Allah’s saying: ‘whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind’....
03/11/2012
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has expressed his profound grief and shock over the tragic explosion of a fuel truck upon a crash into a flyover in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Thursday, 1st November 2012, causing the death of 22 people and injuring over 200 others....
01/11/2012
