Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
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Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, Secretary General of the Organization Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Nabil Elaraby Secretary General of the League of Arab States (LAS) and Dr. Abdul Latif Al-Zayani the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) held a consultative meeting on the sidelines of the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. The venue of the meeting, held Sunday 27 September 2015, was the headquarters of the OIC Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations in New York. This is the third consultative meeting of the Secretaries General of the three organizations with the participation of members of the Senior Officials Committee concerned with the preparation of the consultative sessions and a number of other officials....
27/09/2015
With the escalating Israeli aggressions on Al Quds and Al Aqsa Mosque as well as the ongoing Syrian refugees crisis at the top of his concerns, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, is traveling tomorrow, Saturday, 26 September 2015, at the head of a high-level delegation to New York to participate in the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which opens on 28 September 2015. During the UNGA the OIC is preparing to hold an emergency meeting in New York of the foreign ministers of the OIC Member States to discuss the Israeli violations in the occupied city of Al-Quds and ways to stop the Israeli assaults on Al-Aqsa Mosque. Worth noting is that the UN is having a ceremony for raising the flag of the State of Palestine for the first time. On the sidelines of the UNGA, the Annual Coordination Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the OIC Member States under the chairmanship of Kuwait will be held as well. Also, the OIC Contact Groups on Somalia, Sierra Leone, Mali, Jammu and Kashmir, the Rohingya, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Yemen will meet to review developments in these areas and evaluate the options ahead. The Yemen Contact Group will meet for the first time since it was established by the Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting on Yemen held at the OIC in June 2015. Moreover, the OIC delegation will be participating in several meetings at the UN among which, meetings on the issue of countering violent extremism, and on the conflict in Syria, especially on the devastating refugees’ crisis. The Secretary General will be meeting with the Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Syria, Mr. Staffan De Mistura, to discuss the Syria peace talks, and with the President of the Syrian National Coalition, Dr. Khaled Khoja. In addition to his bilateral meetings with foreign ministers of several states, the EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy and the UN Secretary General, Mr. Madani is holding a coordination meeting with the Secretary Generals of the League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council on issues of mutual concern. Furthermore, the OIC will be cosponsoring two events. One with the Global Fund on partnership in the fight against Malaria in OIC Member States, and the second with the UN and the African Union on Somalia. The OIC is also organizing two roundtable events, one on the role of women in peace building and the other with artists and people working in the creative field.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Ameen Madani, expressed his sincere condolences and sympathy to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdul Aziz, and Crown Prince, His Royal Highness Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, Minister of Interior and Chairman of the Supreme Committee of Hajj, on the pilgrims who have lost their lives during the stampede that occurred in one of the streets of Mina yesterday, Thursday, 11 Zulhijjah 1436 (corresponding to 24 September 2015). The Secretary General also conveyed his heartfelt condolences to the families of the deceased; praying to Allah to bestow on them His mercy and ascribe them as martyrs....
25/09/2015
On the Blessed Eid Al-Adha, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), extended his deep and heartfelt congratulations to the Muslim Ummah on this wonderful occasion. He prayed to Allah Almighty to provide those who perform Hajj and stand before Him with insight, awareness and understanding of the essence of the final Message. He also prayed to the All-merciful to bring them closer to the morals of the last Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and grant them comprehension of the fact that Allah Almighty created man into hardship and made him bear the Trust and labor toward his Lord with great exertion to meet Him....
23/09/2015
Today is the International Day of Peace, which more that three decades ago the international community established in order to encourage the whole mankind to promote the ideals of peace. It is an occasion for all to demonstrate commitment to peace in all viable ways. In this regard, I wish to reiterate the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s principled position that people, regardless of their ethnic, religion, national or racial identities, who suffer in their homes and homelands because of the scourge of conflicts, wars, violence, occupation and oppression, deserve and have right to peace and life in dignity....
21/09/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) received a request from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to hold an emergency meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the OIC Member States to discuss the Israeli violations in the occupied city of Al-Quds and ways to stop the Israeli aggressions on Al-Aqsa Mosque....
19/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation has expressed shock and dismay at the harsh and unacceptable treatment by the Hungarian Police using tear gas and water canon to disperse protesting Syrian refugees who sought to enter the country from Serbia....
17/09/2015
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the reported military intervention today and the illegal arrest and detention in Ouagadougou of the President, the Prime Minister and some Ministers of the Transitional Government in Burkina Faso by elements of the Presidential Guard....
17/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, dispatched several letters on Wednesday, September 16 to the heads of the prominent international organizations, urging them to confront the Israeli violations and escalation in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian Territories in general....
17/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, received on 14 September 2015 at the OIC General Secretariat, Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Lebbat, Ambassador of the Republic of Mali to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Permanent Representative to the OIC, who came to bid him farewell upon the completion of his diplomatic mission....
15/09/2015
The Secretary General of the OIC, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, has today, the 13 September 2015, received, H. E. Mr. Petrit Selimi, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Republic of Kosovo at the General Secretariat....
13/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Iyad Amin Madani, strongly condemned intrusion of the Israeli occupation of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and its assault on worshipers inside al-Aqsa compound. Madani said that this act constitutes a continuation of the crimes and terrorism that has been perpetrated by the Israeli occupation in order to impose Israeli aspirations to divide the Al-Aqsa Mosque according to zones and times....
13/09/2015
The President of the Republic of Indonesia HE Mr. Joko Widodo, who is on an official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, received the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani and his accompanying delegation at his place of residence in Jeddah at the Palace of Hospitality today, Saturday, 12 September 2015....
12/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani, offered his condolences and that of the OIC to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud on the victims of the crane collapse accident in the Holy Mosque in Makkah on Friday, 11 September 2015....
12/09/2015
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, welcomed the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the resolution to raise the flag of Palestine, as an observer state, over the headquarters of the UN. He considered this step as an international support to the expectations and rights of the Palestinian people....
11/09/2015
