OIC emergency meeting to be held in Qatar on Saturday

More than 45 states announced their consent to take part in the emergency meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference next Saturday in Doha.

News reports close to the political sources in Qatar were quoted as saying on Wednesday that Qatar has so far received more than 45 consent from Islamic states to take part in the emergency meeting, which will be attended by the secretary general of the Arab league AL Amr Moussa, one of the UN secretary general assistants, the secretary general of the OIC Abdul Wahid Balqaziz, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat and the secretary general of the Gulf Co-operation Council GCC Jamil al-Hujeilan.

Last week, Qatar which presides over an emergency meeting for the foreign ministers of the OIC member states which includes 56 countries called last week for this meeting to discuss the grave conditions in the Palestinian territories.