OIC's role
Mr. Md. Humayun Kabir's letter headed "Role of OIC" published in The Daily Star's edition of 9 February 2009, reflects serious lack of information about what took place in the OIC immediately after Israel's military operation started in Gaza. Although I do not represent the OIC Secretary General in Bangladesh, I thought that it would be useful to put the record straight about the OIC which both Bangladesh and Turkey are long time members of.
Upon the request of Turkey, the General Secretariat of the OIC called the Executive Committee of the organisation to hold an expanded emergency meeting at Jeddah, on 3 January 2009, to discuss the developments and humanitarian tragedy in Gaza. Bangladesh was represented in the meeting by Ambassador M. Fazlul Karim.
Mr. Kabir or any of your readers can easily reach through Internet to the texts of the final communiqué of the meeting, statement of H.E. Mr Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, the Secretary General of the OIC , and the press release launched immediately after the meeting. If needed the Turkish Embassy in Dhaka can also provide those interested with the copies of these documents.
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