The 48th Session of the Council of Foreign Minister of the Islamic Cooperation Organization (OIC) was opened in Islamabad on Tuesday (March 22). In his main address in the first session of the meeting, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan offered a sad assessment of OIC’s failure in Kashmir and Palestine, and regretted that the West was serious.
“We have failed both Palestine and the Kashmir people. I am sad to say that we have been able to make an impact at all,” Pakistan Dawn’s newspaper quoted Imran. “We are a broken house and the power (west) who knows it … we (Muslims) are 1.5 billion people and our voices to stop this blatant injustice is not significant,” he said.
OKI, known as an Islamic Conference organization until 2011, is the second largest organization in the world after the United Nations, with membership of 57 countries spread across four continents. OIC describes himself as a “collective voice of the Muslim world”, and the purpose stated is “to protect and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people in the world”.
OIC has reserved its membership for Muslim majority countries. Central African Republic, Russia, Thailand, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and “Country” Cyprus Turkey which is not recognized has observer status.
The Islamic Conference organization was founded by the First Islamic Summit Conference held at Rabat, Morocco, in September 1969, for Marshal The Islamic World after the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem that year. The incident has dropped the Middle East into the worst crisis after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
In 1970 the first meeting of the Foreign Minister’s Islamic Conference (ICFM) was held in Jeddah, who decided to establish a permanent secretariat in the city, led by the Secretary General of the Organization. The Secretary General of Oki is currently Diplomat Chadian and Hissein Brahim Taha politician, who took over from Saudi Arabia Dr. Yousef Ahmed Al-Othimeen in November 2020.
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