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The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, vigorously condemned the bloody assault perpetrated today, 16th December 2014, against a school in Peshawar, Pakistan. The attack caused the death of around one hundred people, most of them school-age children....
16/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Amin Madani, praised the Portuguese Parliament’s adoption of a resolution calling on the government to recognise the State of Palestine. Madani considered the resolution a significant step consistent with the United Nations’ resolutions which reiterate the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, including the sovereign independent State of Palestine on the borders of June 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital....
13/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, praised the donation by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, of $35 million to help West African countries fighting Ebola. The donation is part of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s support for the international fight against the epidemic currently afflicting West African countries....
12/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, welcomed the adoption by the Parliament of Ireland of a resolution backing the recognition of the State of Palestine. He stated that this move is in line with international legitimacy resolutions on ending Israeli occupation and supporting the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people, including the embodiment of the independent State of Palestine on the borders of 4 June 1967, with Al-Quds As-Shareef as its capital....
11/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, condemned the crime of killing Minister Ziad Abu Ein, head of the Palestinian Authority Committee against the Separation Wall, by the Israeli occupation forces while participating in a peaceful protest against settlement and land confiscation. The Secretary General said that this heinous crime is yet a manifestation of the ongoing Israeli repression, aggression, and terrorism against the Palestinian people....
10/12/2014
The Fourth Session of the Joint High-Level Committee of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the League of Arab States (LAS) in charge of following up the implementation of the cooperation agreement between the OIC and Las was held at the Headquarters of OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah on 7-9 December 2014. Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, His Excellency Abdullah Abderrahman Alem, and Ambassador Fadel Jawad, Assistant Secretary General for the Political Sector, led OIC and LAS delegations respectively....
09/12/2014
In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful, Most Compassionate...
05/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, welcomed the joint statement put out by the first ministerial meeting of the Global Coalition to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) held in Brussels, Belgium, on 3rd December 2014. The OIC took part in the meeting, being one of the early organizations to openly condemn the self-styled ISIL as the archenemy of Islam....
05/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, held several bilateral meetings at the sidelines of the proceedings of the Tenth Session of the Islamic Conference of Ministers of Information and Communication held in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran on 1- 4 December 2014....
04/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his appreciation for the French Parliament resolution to recognize the state of Palestine, indicating that this significant move is consistent with the international will and resolutions of international legitimacy in order to end the Israeli occupation and support the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people including the sovereignty in their independent State of Palestine according to the borders of 4th June 1976, with Al Quds Al Sharif as its capital....
03/12/2014
Ministers of Information and Communications of the OIC Member States launched on Monday 3 December 2014, in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran, the proceedings of the Tenth Session of the Islamic Conference of Ministers of Information and Communication, under the Theme “Media Convergence for Peace and Calm in the Islamic World” ...
03/12/2014
Finland-OIC bilateral consultation was held at the OIC Headquarters on 01 December 2014. During the consultation, both sides discussed and examined various regional and international issues of mutual concern....
02/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, paid an official visit to Kuwait on Sunday, 30 November 2014 , during which he met with His Highness the deputy Amir and Crown Prince, Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad. His Highness Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad lauded the efforts exerted by the OIC in strengthening the joint Islamic action, stressing the role of the OIC in highlighting the Islamic approach based on tolerance, moderation and rejection of extremism and terrorism....
02/12/2014
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, announced the choice of Al-Quds Ash-Sharif and Konya in Turkey as the capitals of Islamic tourism for 2015 and 2016 respectively. In his speech to the General Assembly of the Standing Committee on Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC), one of the OIC organs, at Istanbul on Thursday 27 November 2014, the Secretary General recalled the important resolutions of the last coordination meeting held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 2 and 3 June 2014 and presided over by the chair of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers, where the capitals of Islamic tourism for the next two years were chosen after a consideration of the nominations submitted by Member States. Madani focused on the utmost importance of institutional reforms and improving synergy and coordination among various OIC institutions. He said that work was going on to develop a new OIC programme of action (2016-2025), in coordination with OIC institutions. He expressed the hope that allocation of sufficient resources, result-oriented focus and strong institutional capacities would boost the renewed efforts towards enhancing the OIC’s dynamism and capacity to confront contemporary developmental challenges. The President of the Republic of Turkey and chairman of COMCEC, Recep Tayyep Erdoghan, had on Thursday 27 November 2014 in Istanbul inaugurated the 30th session of the COMCEC General Assembly in the presence of the OIC Secretary General, relevant ministers of OIC Member States and heads of OIC affiliated institutions. In his speech, the Turkish President explained that the OIC Member States had in recent years taken major steps at the level of trade and development indicators with their share of global trade having increased by 50% in the last decade. He also mentioned that internal trade had made progress in the same period, with intra-OIC trade growing by more than 50%. While the real average global growth rate was 7.2% between 2000 and 2012, the growth rate in the OIC Member States for the same period was 5.4%, the President said. He added that despite the good performance of the economy, trade development among OIC Member States still required further steps to be taken by Member States concerned to give effect to the Trade Preferential System, the legal procedures of which was completed in 2011. In his speech, the President of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), Dr Ahmad Mohamed Ali, stressed the need for the OIC institutions, including the IDB and COMCEC, to support the new OIC programme of action. The General Assembly of COMCEC is held every year to review the economic and development activities of OIC Member States in the previous year. The current session of the General Assembly which began on 25 November 2014 is focused on the role of public and private sector companies in the development of the tourism sector in OIC Member States. The General Assembly also discussed developments in the global economy, with particular reference to the OIC Member States, the expansion of intra-trade in the OIC, promoting the role of the private sector in economic cooperation, developing means of transportation and communication, developing a sustainable and competitive tourism sector, increasing productivity in the agriculture sector, sustaining food security, eradicating poverty and supporting financial cooperation.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, has condemned the gruesome killing of hundreds of worshipers who gathered to pray on Friday, 28stNovember 2014, as a result of multiple gun-shots and twin bomb blasts detonated by people suspected to be members of the extremist insurgents at the Central Mosque Kano, Northern Nigeria. While reinstating the support of the OIC to the government of Nigeria in its effort to combat terrorism, the Secretary General called on the Nigerian government to step up its effort in halting the incessant killing of innocent citizens and destruction of properties in the country....
29/11/2014
