Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
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The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, has on 21st October 2015 received in audience Mr. Ountana Mansa, Ambassador of the Republic of Burkina Faso to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who visited him in his office at the OIC General Secretariat, Jeddah....
22/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani has congratulated the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Senegal for their well deserved election as non-permanent members of the United Nations’ Security Council for the period 2016-2017....
19/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, commended the people of Guinea on their enthusiastic participation in the electoral process in the presidential election that took place on 11 October 2015....
19/10/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the terrorist attack of Friday 16 October 2015 which targeted a Husaynia in the city of Seihat in the county of Qatif, East of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, claiming the lives of five innocent civilians and causing injuries to another nine....
18/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, has condemned the detonation of multiple explosive devices on Thursday, 15th October 2015 by people believed to be extremist insurgents, leading to the death of all the occupants of a Mosque, numbering of about 40 people, in Mulai area near Maiduguri, Borno State Nigeria....
16/10/2015
An OIC Group Meeting was recently held at the Ambassadorial level with the participation of the OIC Special Envoy for the Central African Republic Dr. Cheikh Tidiane Gadio....
15/10/2015
The OIC Secretary General, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, paid a visit to American Islamic College (AIC) in Chicago, USA on 5 October 2015. The Secretary General chaired a meeting of the Board of Trustees (BoT) which reviewed the administrative, academic and financial aspects of the College. During the BoT meeting, decisions were taken regarding the establishment of waqf property, development of AIC strategic plan and recruitment of new faculty. The BoT expressed satisfaction over the gradual expansion of the College’s faculties and intake of new students in various disciplines. It is worth noting that the Illinois Board of Higher Education has granted the College degree granting authority in three of its programmes: BA and MA in Islamic Studies and Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies....
15/10/2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has expressed its concern at a statement issued by the Afghan Taliban on 12th October where news channels and journalists in Afghanistan were specifically identified as potential targets....
14/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, extended his congratulations to the Islamic Ummah on the occasion of the advent of the new Hejri year 1437 H. He expressed his best wishes on the occasion to all the peoples of the Muslim world and his prayers that Allah will make this year one of bounty, peace and prosperity for humanity at large, and that security and serenity would return to the Islamic world and prevail in it....
14/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his strong condemnation of the escalated acts of killing civilians perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces in the occupied Palestinian territories, particularly in the occupied city of Al Quds/Jerusalem, as well as the intensified terrorist acts carried out by the extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinian citizens, which led to the martyrdom of more than 28 innocent people and the wounding of hundreds of others, including women and children, since the beginning of this month. All of these acts form crimes which, the Secretary General noted, represent a flagrant violation of the Geneva IV Agreement and of international humanitarian law....
14/10/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has strongly condemned the terrorist bomb attacks on 10 and 11 October 2015 in Chad and Cameroun in which fifty one persons were killed and seventy seven others injured....
12/10/2015
At the invitation of the Government of Sudan, the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) participated with a delegation headed by Ambassador Abdullah Alim, the Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, in the opening session of the Conference of Sudan National Dialogue (SND) held Saturday, 10 October 2015 in Khartoum....
11/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his warm congratulations to Tunisia on the winning of the four sponsors of the national dialogue (Tunisia's General Labour Union, Tunisian Confederation of Industry and Trade, the Tunisian Human Rights League, and the Tunisian Order of Lawyers) with the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. The recognition was an appreciation of the quartet’s role in supporting dialogue and harmony between political parties which enabled Tunisia to achieve peaceful transfer of power and to agree that the state’s civil institutions concentrate on guaranteeing freedom, security, stability and development....
11/10/2015
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the announcement by the envoy of the United Nations Secretary General to Libya, Bernardino León, of the agreement to form a Government of National Unity in Libya. The Secretary General of the OIC, Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his satisfaction with this step, which he described as important towards comprehensive and lasting peace in the country....
11/10/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) strongly condemned the two terrorist blasts that took place today 10 October 2015 in Turkey's capital Ankara, causing the death of at least 86 people and injuring around 200 others ....
10/10/2015
