OIC Participates in the Third Meeting of the G8 and partners in Global Peacekeeping Operations Capacity Building

Date: 23/12/2009

Upon a kind invitation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Egypt , the OIC participated in the Third Meeting of the G8 and partners in Global Peacekeeping Operations Capacity Building held on 20-21 December 2009, in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt. The meeting was attended by G8 representatives, the main peacekeeping troop contributors and a number of international and regional organizations including the UN, AU, EU, OSCE and LAS. The meeting discussed possible ways and means to meet the current challenges facing UN modern peacekeeping operations including partnership with regional organizations. The meeting also dedicated a special session on the cooperation and partnership with regional organizations. In his presentation before the session, the representative of the OIC, Ambassador Tarig Ali Bakheet stated that the OIC has now come to be considered as a reliable and credible partner in effectively addressing various conflicts and hot issues affecting its Member States. In the area of peacekeeping operations, he mentioned that the OIC as a whole and, more prominently, its troop contributing Member States, have set a luminous record. He further added that the OIC, based on its new Charter adopted in 2008, the Ten-Year Program of Action endorsed by the 3rd OIC Extraordinary Summit in 2005 as well as the overwhelming support given by its Member States to the new OIC’s vision and mission, has started examining ways and means of infusing a new impetus in the OIC’s work in conflict prevention, confidence building, peacekeeping, conflict resolution and post conflict rehabilitation in OIC Member States and in conflict situations involving Muslim communities. Ambassador Tarig briefed the meeting on the OIC new initiative regarding its future role in maintaining peace and security and resolving conflicts in the Member States including peacekeeping and expressed the hope that that the new initiative combined with the rich experience of the OIC and its troop contributing Member States in the UN peacekeeping operations would lead the Organization to be more active in partnership and cooperation with other international and regional organizations in maintaining international peace and security.

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