RA Foreign Minister: Close cooperation with all OIC states should be established

PanARMENIAN.Net -
Members of Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) express unilateral agreement, where non-Muslim state is concerned, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian stated at governmental sitting, in reply to Prosperous Armenia parliamentary group member Naira Zohrabyan’s question on Khojalu events.



As Edward Nalbandian noted, though RA collaborates with OIC states hosting Armenian embassies, closer cooperation has to be established with all members of the organisation to prevent anti-Armenian resolutions.



The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is an international organisation with a permanent delegation to the United Nations. It groups 57 member states, from the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, Caucasus, Balkans, Southeast Asia and South Asia. The official languages of the organisation are Arabic, English and French.



Since the nineteenth century, many Muslims had aspired to uniting the Muslim ummah to serve their common political, economic, and social interests. Despite the presence of secularist, nationalist, and socialist ideologies, in modern Muslim states, they have cooperated together to form the Organisation of the Islamic Conference. The formation of the OIC happened in the backdrop of the loss of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. The final cause sufficiently compelled leaders of Muslim nations to meet in Rabat to establish the OIC on September 25, 1969.

According to its charter, the OIC aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values; promote solidarity amongst member states; increase cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas; uphold international peace and security; and advance education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.