ISLAMABAD, 22 May 2005 — Pakistan is to host an international meet here next week on revitalizing the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to make it an effective interlocutor with the UN, the US and the rest of the world.
The two-day second and final meeting of the Commission of Eminent Persons (CEP) will begin here on May 28 to finalize recommendations for restructuring and revitalizing the 57-member OIC. Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will inaugurate the meeting, which Malaysian Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar will chair. OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will also participate in the meeting.
The meeting is part of an OIC plan to implement a Pakistan sponsored resolution titled “Islam and Muslim World in 21st Century: The Path of Enlightened Moderation”, Dawn reported yesterday. Current OIC chairman Malaysia will present the recommendations of the meeting to the organization’s extraordinary summit in Saudi Arabia in November.
“The recommendations are aimed at making the pan-Islamic body dynamic, credible and forward-looking to enable it to respond to the multiple challenges and opportunities that the Muslim world faces,” Dawn said.
