Malaysia to call OIC summit at Saudi request
Malaysia, responding to a call by Saudi Arabia, has agreed to organise a summit meeting of Muslim leaders that would seek to heal rifts in the Islamic world, local media reported yesterday.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, chairman of the 57-member Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), told Malaysian reporters accompanying him on a visit to Paris that he would dispatch his foreign minister to Riyadh to discuss the plan.
Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on Friday urged Malaysia to organise a summit "so that we can overcome, with our faith in God ... the state of dismemberment and fragmentation" among Muslims.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. The leaders' conference should be preceded by meetings among "the (Islamic) nations' thinkers and scholars ... to outline visions of the nations' future and thus assist the gathering of the leaders, which I hope will be held here, in this pure land," he said.
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