Date: 21/01/2016
The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), H.E. Iyad Ameen Madani, received on Wednesday 20 January 2016 in his office at the OIC Headquarters in Jeddah H.E. Asylbek Jeenbekov, Speaker of the Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of the Kyrgyz Republic and an accompanying parliamentary delegation. The Speaker of Parliament conveyed the appreciation of the Kyrgyz leadership to the Secretary General for his unstinting efforts to enhance the role and international visibility of the OIC. He also expressed the desire of Kyrgyzstan to further strengthen cooperation and relations with the Organization in areas of common interest. Madani, for his part, highlighted the major issues of mutual cooperation and concern to the OIC and Kyrgyzstan as well as the regional and international challenges with which the OIC and its Member States have to come to grips with.