Ihsanoglu calls for the cooperation of Member States and providing resources to support IINA

Date: 10/12/2011

The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, called for providing the International Islamic News Agency (IINA) with all resources to enable it to embark without hindrance on the development of its work and to establish effective cooperation between news agencies in the Muslim world, and share news, files and data that serve the development of joint Islamic media action. The Secretary General in his speech delivered by the Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Ambassador Abdullah bin Abdul Rahman Alim at the fourth session of the General Assembly of IINA, which was held at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah on Saturday, 10 December 2011, emphasized that the seventh item of the Ten-Year Program of Action issued by the third extraordinary Islamic Summit held in Mecca on the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, mandated "the Secretary General to prepare a report to evaluate the current situation of IINA, ISBO, and the OIC Information Department; consider ways and means to activate the role and mechanisms of the media within the framework of the OIC System; and submit proposals, in this regard, to the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers for consideration." The Secretary General added that the study related to the restructuring of IINA has been undertaken, and supported by the eighth session of the Information Ministers held in Rabat in January 2009 which approved the new structuring of the Agency in light of the comprehensive study on the restructuring of the Agency and the financial rules and regulations and those related to the staff, which had been prepared by a leading consultancy firm, as well as the time-frame and financial requirements set by the restructuring process of the Agency. In a related context, the General Assembly, which was chaired by the Minister of Culture and Information of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Chairman of the Executive Council of IINA, Dr. Abdul Aziz bin Mohieddin Khoja, presented the report and recommendations of the twenty-fourth session of the Executive Council and resolution of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers as well as decisions of the Chairman of the Executive Council. The General Assembly also discussed the draft budget estimates of the Agency for the years 2010, 2011 and 2012, in addition to endorsement of the final accounts and the budget for the years 2009 and 2010, election of members of the new Executive Council and new members of the Finance Committee, as well as delegating the Executive Council to carry out the procedures of selecting the new Director General of the Agency.

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