Senior Officials Meeting Preparatory for Second Ministerial Conference on Social Development in OIC Member States Kicks off in Cairo

Date: 05/06/2023

The Senior Officials Meeting preparatory for the Second Session of the Ministerial Conference on Social Development in the Member States of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) kicked off today, June 5, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt.
Addressing the meeting, the representative of the Republic of Turkiye, Chair of the First Session of the Ministerial Conference on Social Development, reviewed his country’s efforts during its chair of the First Session.
In his statement during the opening session, Ambassador Tarig Ali Bakheet, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian, Social and Cultural Affairs, expressed the OIC General Secretariat's appreciation and gratitude to the Government and people of the Arab Republic of Egypt for the valuable and successful efforts to organize this Conference. He then reviewed the efforts of the General Secretariat in following up the implementation of the Resolutions issued by the First Conference.
Under the chairmanship of Ambassador Khaled Al-Bakly, Assistant Foreign Minister for Human Rights and Social Affairs, representative of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Chair of the Second Session of the Conference, the meeting discussed the draft Omnibus Resolution and the draft Cairo Declaration. It also discussed the draft OIC Action Plan for Persons with Disabilities, and recommended submitting those documents to the Ministerial Meeting scheduled for June 6, 2023.

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