Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) welcomed the official assumption by the State of Palestine of the presidency of the Group of 77 and China, stressing that this historic achievement would consolidate the political and legal status of Palestine in the international arena, and its well-deserved right to acquire full UN membership.
...The 42nd session of the Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs (ICECS) kicked off on 15 January 2019 at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah. At the end of its three-day meeting, ICECS will submit draft resolutions for consideration during the 46th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) due to be held in Abu-Dhabi, capital city of the United Arab Emirates, on 1-2 March 2019.
...The Organization of Islamic Cooperation condemned the terrorist car bombing in a market in Al-Qaim western of the province of Anbar in Iraq on 11 January 2019 that killed and injured a number of victims.
...The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) followed with great interest the recent developments in the Gabonese Republic, an OIC Member State, where a few military elements attempted a failed coup against the country’s constitutional institutions.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Dr. Yousef Al-Othaimeen, was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Ibrahim Al-Assaf, on Sunday, 6 January 2019, in his office in Riyadh.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, commended Niger’s government for neutralizing around 287 Boko Haram terrorist militants and seizing a large quantity of military hardware in the southeast border with Nigeria between 28 December 2018 and 02 January 2019.
...Following violent inter-communal clashes in Central Mali on Tuesday 1 January 2019, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, strongly condemned the attack that caused the death of at least 37 people.
...The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attempt to bomb the St. Mary and Abu Sefein Coptic Orthodox Church in Ezbet Al-Hajjana in Nasr City in east Cairo, yesterday 5 January 2019, which claimed the life of an explosives expert police officer and the injury of others.
...The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr. Yousef bin Ahmed Al-Othaimeen, strongly condemned the attack by a heavily unidentified armed group on the Niger-Nigeria border, on Saturday 29 December 2018, which killed at least ten Nigerian and Niger soldiers and wounded many others.
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