Islamic committee starts deliberations in Riyadh
Regional, Politics, 1/25/1999

The Islamic committee for economic, cultural, and social affairs has started the meetings of its 22nd session at the headquarters of the general secretariat of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Jeddah on Saturday to discuss several topics.

An inaugural address by OIC Secretary General Ezzeddine Laraki read by the organization's assistant secretary general, Ibrahim Baker, underlined the importance of the current session's deliberations as an opportunity for collective thinking on clear-sighted measures that should be taken to withstand negative aspects of globalization of the economy and its consequences on the Islamic world.

Laraki's address said that several main rules and agreements prepared by the OIC should be signed promptly so as to become the legal framework which will enable rapid strengthening of trade and economic cooperation between the OIC member states as well as developing cooperation among OIC member states in the areas of sciences and technology.

Laraki concentrated on the need to follow up the implementation of resolutions adopted by the OIC's second conference for ministers of culture, which was held in Rabat and had drawn the mechanism and basics for implementing the cultural strategy for the Islamic world.

On fighting anti-Islamic media, the OIC secretary general said that preparations are now underway to convene a meeting for a team of legal experts who will be assigned the task of formulating an international legal document that provides for honoring Islamic values and holy shrines.

The committee will also study economic conditions in the Islamic states. It includes economic problems which face the Islamic countries, the repercussions of setting up regional and international economic groupings in the Islamic world, economic problems in the OIC member states with less growth and development and means of eliminating poverty among the least growing and lowest income OIC member states.

The committee will also study economic problems facing the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Syrian citizens in the occupied Golan, and the Lebanese people in occupied south Lebanon and the western Bekaa.

The committee will also discuss scientific and technological issues. These will cover environmental problems in the Islamic world, including the impact of Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories, the occupied Golan Heights and other occupied Arab territories.

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