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OIC’s rapid response to Jerusalem crisis

Yasar Yakis

President Donald Trump’s decision to move the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held last week in Istanbul. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s achievement — in his capacity as the sessional OIC chairman — to convene the summit in such a short time has to beRead more

EU, OIC hold high-level meeting

Jeddah - Muslimchronicle

The European Union (EU) and the OIC General Secretariat held their second Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) at the OIC Headquarters. A High-Level EU delegation led by Colin Scicluna, Acting Managing Director for Middle East and North Africa of the European External Action Service, led the EU delegation in the meeting. Ambassador Tarig Bakheet, Director General for Political Affairs, led theRead more

Abbas warns 'no peace or stability' without Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

Jerusalem - Muslimchronicle

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday warned that there could be "no peace or stability" in the Middle East until Jerusalem is recognised as the capital of a Palestinian state. "Jerusalem is and will forever be the capital of the Palestinian state... There will be no peace, no stability without that," Abbas told an emergency meeting of Organisation of IslamicRead more

Al- Bashir: Celebration of Islamic Capitals Important for Correction

Khartoum - Muslimchronicle

The President of the Republic, Field Marshal, Omer al- Bashir underscored that the celebration of the Islamic capitals, presented by the project of Sinnar capital of the Islamic culture, is important for the correction of the concepts, the wrong religious intellectual approaches and , wrong education that lead to the increase of the Islamophobia. He reiterated that the celebration ofRead more

OIC Water Council holds meeting

Istanbul - Muslimchronicle

The first meeting of OIC Water Council was held in Istanbul on 15-16 November 2017. Ministers from Nigeria, Bangladesh, Uganda, Iran, Iraq and Turkey participated, and high officials from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Guinea, and Tunisia as well as OIC institutions IDB, ISESCO, SESRIC and COMSTECH, and other organizations namely the International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA) and Inter-Islamic NetworkRead more

Muslim World League holds US conference on cross-cultural communication

New York - Muslimchronicle

The Muslim World League is holding a conference on “Civilizational Communication between the United States of America and the Islamic World” on Saturday in New York City. Representatives of Islamic institutions from all over the world and their American counterparts along scientific, intellectual from all over the world are set to take part. The conference, which will last for twoRead more

OIC calls upon EU, UNHCHR and UNHCR to take decisive action on Rohingya

JEDDAH - Musimchronicle

Dr. Yousef A. Al-Othaimeen, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, OIC, has urged the European Union and United Nations agencies to take action to alleviate the suffering of the Rohingya people of Myanmar. The Secretary General addressed separate letters to Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN HighRead more