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On Tuesday morning, 15 February 1435 AH – 19 November, 2013, Mogadishu, the Somali capital, witnessed a ceremony for the completion of the first batch of "50 wells" of Saudi National Campaign Project for the Relief of Somali People to dig and rehabilitate 150 artesian wells spread over eleven provinces affected by drought and famine in Somalia....
20/11/2013
The successful implementation of the various programmes and projects under the OIC Ten-Year Programme of Action came under focus during the 29th General Assembly of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the OIC (COMCEC), which began its proceedings today in Istanbul, Republic of Turkey. In his opening speech before the meeting, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu traced the OIC achievements in the economic domain to the priorities given to policy harmonization, resource mobilization and south-south and triangular cooperation. He stated that the creation of a dedicated funding mechanism for trade financing through the establishment of three subsidiary funding institutions of IDB has contributed to the efforts at achieving the target of 20% of intra-OIC trade. ...
20/11/2013
On the occasion of the Universal Children’s Day, I wish extend my greetings and good wishes to the children of the world. It is important to recall that the entire international community, in this day, comes together, on this day, to renew its commitment to the 1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child and the 1989 Convention of the Rights of the Child....
20/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, condemned the terrorist act that took place this morning in Sinai, the Arab Republic of Egypt, and killed and injured a number of Egyptian soldiers....
20/11/2013
Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) laid stressed on the need to face up to the attempts made by some to capitalize on their sectarian affiliations to achieve political goals and to transform their sectarian beliefs into an ideology, which thus creates sectarian strife occasioning a dangerous rift between Muslims and undermining their unity....
19/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the terrorist bombing that took place in Bir Hasan district in the southern suburb of Beirut, deploring it as an offensive act that targets innocent civilians and destroys public and private property....
19/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is shocked and deeply saddened learning the news of the tragic plane crush in Kazan, the capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan, killing all 50 passengers and crew members including the beloved son of the Tatarstan President Rustem Minnikhanov. ...
18/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has called on all parties in Libya to exercise maximum self-restraint and avoid any armed escalation that could lead to serious chaos thus threatening world peace and security and truncating the ongoing democratic transformation process in the country....
17/11/2013
1. Upon the invitation of the Government of Myanmar a delegation consisting of the OIC Secretary General, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Djibouti and Turkey, and high level representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia paid a visit to Myanmar from 14-16 November 2013....
17/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and his accompanying delegation from seven member states visited on Friday, November 15, 2013, the camps of internally displaced peoples (IDPs) in restive Rakhine State, Myanmar. The OIC delegation listened to Rakhine Buddhists and Muslims giving them a message of assurance that the OIC seeks to help both communities in order for them to live together in peace and harmony....
16/11/2013
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, and his accompanying delegation from seven member states met on Thursday, November 14, 2013 in the capital of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Daw, the Vice President of Myanmar and the Chairman of Central Committee on Implementation of Peace and Stability and Development in Rakhine State, Dr. Sai Mauk Kham, and the Vice Speaker of People’s Parliament, Nanda Kyawswar. The meetings were constructive reflecting both sides willingness to cooperate with the other....
15/11/2013
At his Monday Soiree (Umsiya Alithnainiya) held in Jeddah on Monday 11 November 2013, Sheikh Abdul Maqsood Saeed Khoja, hosted a ceremony to celebrate the contributions of the OIC Secretary General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. Sheikh Khoja remarked that the Secretary General discharged a difficult reform task. As a first-rate academician and researcher, his goal since assuming office was reform, which he made a strategic slogan and sought to achieve it with equanimity and moderation, while reforming all aspects and organs of the Organisation....
14/11/2013
The 4th Session of the Islamic Conference of Ministers In-charge of Childhood was held in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan on 11th and 12th 2013 under the theme, “Children and the Challenges of Urbanization in the Islamic World”....
12/11/2013
Bismillahi Rahmani Rahim...
12/11/2013
Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, follows with a great deal of sorrow the huge devastation sustained by the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan which caused considerable losses in lives and property. Official sources in the Philippines estimate that over ten thousand people were killed and that many villages sustained considerable damage, with millions of people left homeless. Following this disaster which hit the people of the Philippines, the Secretary General appeals to all OIC member states -at these critical moments- to stand united by the Government and people of the Philippines; calling for the provision of emergency aids to mitigate the consequences of this unprecedented natural disaster. ...
11/11/2013
