Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
The need to promote active collaboration among the various stakeholders has been identified as necessary for the popularisation of Islamic financial products, with a view to addressing the challenge of financial exclusion facing the peoples of OIC member states. In his keynote address before the Global Islamic Economic Summit, which concluded its proceedings in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 6th October 2015, the OIC Secretary General observed that the OIC is currently working on mobilizing governments of OIC member states, public sector operators, members of the intelligentsia and research centers to fashion out ways and means of deepening their engagements in these critical sectors of Islamic Finance. These include such areas as Islamic Banking and Finance, the Halal Food and Pharmaceutical industries, Islamic Tourism, Fashion and Arts, and Islamic Social Finance. ...
08/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, congratulated the people of the Kyrgyz Republic for the successful conduct of Parliamentary election which was held on 04 October 2015....
08/10/2015
The 6th Islamic Conference of Environment Ministers (ICEM) is to be held in Rabat, Morocco, on Oct. 8-9, 2015. The Conference is being jointly organized by the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) under the patronage of the Kingdom of Morocco....
07/10/2015
The OIC Secretary General Iyad Amin Madani, met the UN Secretary General at the latter’s office on Friday 2/10/2015 on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. The two sides discussed a number of regional and international issues foremost of which the Palestinian issue especially the events in Al-Quds and the Israeli acts of aggression against the Aqsa Mosque. The meeting also addressed the current developments in Syria and the situation of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar....
02/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), H.E. Iyad Ameen Madani, in the presence of the Palestinian president H.E. Mahmoud Abbas, international senior officials, United Nations Secretary General, and President of the General Assembly, participated in a ceremony held at the United Nations on 30 September 2015 on the occasion of hoisting the Palestinian flag at that international platform....
02/10/2015
The OIC Foreign Ministers held their Annual Coordinating Meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York on the 1/10/ 2015 under the chairmanship of Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al Hamad Al Sabah, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabah opened the meeting with a statement in which he addressed the challenges and crises encounter by the Islamic World such as unemployment, poverty, outbreak of diseases and terrorism. ...
01/10/2015
In response to the invitation from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on 1 October 2015 in New York held an extraordinary meeting of foreign ministers of its member states under the chairmanship of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the State of Kuwait, H.E. Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. In attendance at the meeting were the Prime Minister of Palestine, Dr Rami Hamdallah, the Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Adel Al-Jubeir, and the OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani. The meeting was held to discuss Israeli attacks and aggression in the occupied Al-Quds. The participants considered the grave developments in the city of Al-Quds, particularly the escalated Israeli attack on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and its efforts to impose a new fait accompli on the city in order to divide it....
01/10/2015
In his statement to the Security Council in the open debate on “Settlement of conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa and countering terrorist threat in the region,” in connection with the agenda item “Maintenance of international peace and security”, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, stressed that as a committed and strategic partner of the UN system and of the international community, the OIC exerts every possible effort to bring remedies to these intertwined and daunting challenges the MENA region is witnessing....
01/10/2015
The OIC Contact Group on Yemen held its first meeting on the sidelines of the OIC Annual Coordination Meeting of Foreign Ministers at the UN Headquarters in New York....
01/10/2015
The OIC Contact Group on Myanmar held a meeting on the sidelines of the Annual Coordination Meeting (ACM) of the OIC Foreign Ministers at the UN in New York on Wednesday Sept. 30 in which it welcomed the proposals of the OIC’s Special Envoy to Myanmar and adopted his recommended plan of action....
01/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani announced the establishment of a Messaging Center at the General Secretariat that aims at countering extremist discourse and propaganda. This was made by the Secretary General during his statement at the Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, which was opened by US President Barack Obama at the UNGA on 29 September 2015....
01/10/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation held two meetings on Somalia on the sidelines of the Annual Coordination Meeting (ACM) of Foreign Minister during the 70th Session of the UNGA in New York on 28th September 2015. The OIC Contact Group on Somalia met at Ministerial level under the chairmanship of Qatar. It reviewed the latest developments in Somalia and heard from the Somali Foreign Minister, HE. Abdusalam H. Omer, and the OIC Secretary General, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani....
01/10/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, has called for calm and restraint in the Central African Republic (CAR). ...
30/09/2015
Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, met with the Foreign Minister of the State of Palestine, Dr. Riyad Al-Maliki, at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on 28 September 2015. Both discussed the latest developments relating to the question of Palestine, particularly in the light of Israel’s escalated aggression against the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque....
29/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani held a bilateral meeting with H.E Ms. Federica Mogherini, the European Union High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy on Sunday, 27 September 2015, in New York on the sidelines of the UNGA. The two sides discussed issues of mutual concern, at the top of which are developments in Palestine, Syria and the Rohingya in Myanmar....
27/09/2015
