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Senior Officials conclude their Meeting Today
Senior officials of the OIC Member States concluded their
two-day meeting today in Dakar, Senegal in preparation for
the Foreign Ministers meeting, which starts on March 10,
2008 ahead of the 11th Session of the Islamic
Summit Conference. The participants in the Senior
Officials’ Meeting, which was chaired by the Senegalese
Ministers of Foreign Affairs focused on the Summit’s
agenda, the revised OIC Charter, the final communiqué, and
the resolutions of the Summit to present them to the
Foreign Ministers’ meeting and consequently to the Summit
on March 13-14, 2008.
The Summit, titled “Islam in the 21st Century”,
is significant due to the current events and challenges
facing the Muslim Ummah including the issue of Palestine,
Lebanon, Iraq, Somalia, and Darfur. The issue of
Islamophobia has high priority on the agenda whereupon the
first report on Islamophobia by the OIC Islamophobia
Observatory will be released. Also of priority is the
Special Development Programme for Africa and raising
intra-OIC trade among the Member States from 13% to 20% by
2015 in accordance with the OIC Ten-year Programme of
Action.
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