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Brainstorming session on comprehensive reform of OIC begins
DHAKA, Feb 19, 2020 (BSS) – A two-day long brainstorming session on comprehensive reform to the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) began today in the city.
The session, co-chaired by Bangladesh, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, for re-engineering legal, political and administrative architecture of the OIC, is expected to come up with stronger policy recommendations.
The recommendations will be discussed at the next council of the foreign ministers to be held in April, 2020 in Niamey, Niger.
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen inaugurated the second session on comprehensive reform of OIC at Hotel Intercontinental in Dhaka while Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen conducted the inaugural session of the event.
Inaugurating the session, Foreign Minister said , “We are here today to offer views and visions to identify areas, issues and possible solutions towards a comprehensive reform of the OIC.”
He hoped that the delegates would come up with mechanism for making the organization more relevant to the Ummah that it serves keeping national interests aside.
Momen congratulated the Gambia, and the whole brotherhood of the OIC for its innovative approach towards resolving the Rohingya crisis through international legal mechanism at the ICJ.
He called to harness the energy of the youth and the women to encourage various professional associations and networks such as the STI (Science, Technology and Innovation) community in furthering OIC objectives and advancing its collective agenda.
Momen said that Bangladesh always wants to ensure that mechanisms and initiatives created for dispute and conflict resolution, and diffusion of tension through peaceful means like mediation, arbitration, joint diplomatic moves and peace-making or peace-building missions are activated, harmonized and put into operation.
He called for stopping the fratricidal conflicts plaguing the Muslim world, saying, “We must stop infighting among the Muslim Ummah.”
The foreign minister urged the delegates to identify ways and means to engage the private sector and civil society in new partnership models.
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