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Azerbaijan, OIC discuss current ties

19 January 2017 [11:34] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Amina Nazarli

Azerbaijan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) discussed the bilateral relations prior to the OIC Emergency Ministerial Meeting to be held in Kuala Lumpur.

Azerbaijan`s Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov met with Dr. Yousef Al Othaimeen, the Secretary General of OIC on January 19.

The sides expressed their satisfaction with the level of current cooperation between Azerbaijan and the OIC and exchanged views on the other issues of mutual concern.

Al Othaimeen highly appreciated the active role of Azerbaijan as an OIC Member State and its contribution to the activities of the Organization and expressed his confidence that the cooperation with Azerbaijan will further be continued at the highest level.

In turn, Mammadyarov informed his interlocutor about the presidential decree on declaring the year of 2017 the “Year of Islamic Solidarity” in Azerbaijan.

The OIC Secretary General mentioned that this decree is highly appreciated and commended.

The minister further said that Azerbaijan will spare no efforts to strengthen solidarity within the OIC and expressed his assurance that the Islamic Solidarity Games to be hosted by Azerbaijan will make tangible contribution to the development of this goal.

The FM invited Othaimeen to Azerbaijan and expressed his hope that the athletes of the OIC Member States will actively participate in the upcoming Islamic Solidarity Games. The OIC Secretary General has kindly accepted the invitation.

Mammadyarov also hailed the establishment of the Contact Group on the aggression of Armenia against Azerbaijan within OIC and its first constitutive session.

He also expressed his appreciation to the OIC Secretary General and Member States for unequivocally supporting Azerbaijan’s fair position on the resolution of Armenia-Azerbaijan Nagorno-Karabakh conflict based on the norms and principles of international law. In this context, he also underlined the resolutions and statements adopted by the OIC on the conflict.

The sides further exchanged their views on the issues such as the situation of Rohingya Muslims, fighting against terrorism and trends of Islamophobia, also the subjects on the agenda of the OIC.

The OIC meeting will discuss the situation of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar as well as the situation of the more than 120,000 displaced and refugee Muslims within Myanmar.

The upcoming ministerial meeting is going to be held against the backdrop of ongoing concerns of the OIC General Secretariat for the situation of the Rohingya Muslims and the continuing violence as well as the stance of the Myanmar government on the situation in Rakhine state.

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