Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Collective Voice of The Muslim World
Date: 01/12/2012
The President of Burkina Faso, H.E. Blaise Compaoré received on 29 November 2012, a high-level OIC delegation in his office in Ouagadougou. During the audience, the delegation delivered a special written message from the OIC Secretary General, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, in which he conveyed the appreciation of the role of the President in his capacity as the ECOWAS-led mediator on the crisis in Mali and reiterated the continued support of the OIC in its mediation efforts slated to find a peaceful solution to the conflict in Mali within the framework of preserving its national unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity. The President, for his part, commended the active peace-building engagement of the OIC in the region and invited the OIC to participate in the planned first face-to-face meeting in Ouagadougou between representatives of the government of Mali and the Malian rebel movements. Earlier, the delegation had met with the Foreign Minister, H.E. Mr. Djibril Bassolé and exchanged views on the ongoing mediation efforts to solve the conflict in Mali and the Sahel.
