Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
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The President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, H.E. Masoud Barazani, received the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, on Wednesday 14 January 2015. Both sides discussed bilateral cooperation and the state of affairs in Iraq, in the light of terrorist incidents taking place in many regions of the country. President Barazani stressed that the Iraqi Kurds were proud of their nationality and affiliation to Iraq and expressed appreciation to the OIC. He said that the OIC was capable of uniting the Muslims and giving assurance to the Iraqi Kurds. He also lauded the OIC’s weight and importance as an umbrella institution of the Muslim ummah that is also able to support cooperation. He praised the OIC’s efforts in the political, humanitarian and cultural fields....
15/01/2015
Upon his arrival in Baghdad on Tuesday evening, 13 January 2015, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, held a series of meetings with a number of Iraqi religious figures in addition to the special representative of the UN Secretary General in Iraq....
14/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, received on 12 January 2015, in his office at the General Secretariat, H. E. Mr. Mahamat Kamoun, the Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR) and his accompanying delegation....
13/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, will visit Iraq on 13 January 2015. The tour which will comprise stops in Baghdad, Najaf and Erbil is part of the Secretary General’s consultations to reflect on ways of coordination and cooperation between the two sides and affirm support for Iraq’s unity and stability....
12/01/2015
The OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) condemned in the strongest terms possible the terrorist attack, which occurred on Wednesday January 7, 2015 in Paris on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a weekly cartoon Magazine in Paris, France, that claimed the lives of 12 people. The Commission regretted the barbaric act and expressed solidarity with the bereaved families, and the French nation for this tragic loss....
12/01/2015
The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will host at its headquarters in Jeddah a consultative meeting on Tuesday 13 January 2015 on the issues related to the OIC Islamic Organization of Food Security (IOFS)....
11/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, has strongly condemned the horrific carnage in Baga that claimed, according to estimates, the lives of about 2000 innocent people, mostly women and children, and the suicide bombing of a ten-year-old girl that killed dozens in Maiduguri, northeastern part of Nigeria. The killings in Baga which spanned for three days, from 7th to 9th January 2015, and the bomb explosion on Friday 9th January 2015 were all carried out by people suspected to be members of Boko Haram....
11/01/2015
OIC Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) strongly condemned the recent protest marches organized by German right wing movement PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West) as racist and manifestation of growing Islamophobia in Europe and in particular in Germany. Despite organizers’ efforts to conceal their real intentions under the rhetoric of simple objection to Germany’s migration policies, motives of both the protests and organizers were clearly racist and xenophobic. The fact is not only made evident by the very name of the movement that organized these protest marches but also from its manifesto that seeks to protect the specific cultural bounds of German society as well as the support it receives from far right politicians to neo-Nazi factions and football hooligans groups. ...
11/01/2015
The Middle East region witnessed a wave of very cold weather with the fall of the snow and rain causing Syrian refuges and Iraqi displaced people to suffer....
08/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, in a letter to the Foreign Minister of France H E Mr. Laurent Fabius has condemned the terrorist attack against the office of Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris on 7 January 2015 which claimed lives of 10 media workers and two police officers according to news reports. ...
08/01/2015
The Spokesperson of the Islamophobia Observatory at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah, strongly condemned, the terrorist act against the office of Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris on 7 January 2015....
07/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, met the Foreign Minister of Jordan, Nasser Judeh, in his office in Amman on 6 January 2015....
06/01/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist and criminal attack on the northern borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which claimed the lives of two border security agents, may Allah have mercy upon their souls....
06/01/2015
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, visited the City of Al-Quds on Monday 5 January 2015, the second day of his visit to the State of Palestine. Madani and his accompanying delegation prayed in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and conducted a tour of the Al-Quds Sacred Mosque. There he listened to the officials about the Israeli attacks and violations against the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque which have not spared the Mosque’s foundations....
05/01/2015
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, visited the City of Al-Quds on Monday 5 January 2015, the second day of his visit to the State of Palestine. Madani and his accompanying delegation prayed in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and conducted a tour of the Al-Quds Sacred Mosque. There he listened to the officials about the Israeli attacks and violations against the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque which have not spared the Mosque’s foundations....
05/01/2015
