OIC to meet on February 26th to discuss the Iraqi issue

Malaysia's foreign minister Sayed Hamid al-Burr announced yesterday that members states at the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) will meet in Kuala Lumpur on February 26th to discuss the Iraqi issue.

Minister Sayed Hamid said that Qatar, which assumed the current rotating presidency of the OIC will call for an emergency summit to discuss the crisis in Doha in a later time.

The minister added that at the beginning of the week that Qatar approved to convene an emergency summit in Kuala Lumpur, but agreed on convening an unofficial meeting following a telephone call made by Malaysia's prime minister Mahateir Muhammad with the Amir of Qatar Shaikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani on Monday.

The Malaysian minister explained that he had received a telephone call from Qatar's foreign minister in order to express his support for Malaysia's desire to making unofficial discussions and asked for Malaysia's support to convening an emergency summit for the OIC member sates in Doha.

Malaysia intends to convene the meetings of the Organization conference just one day after the summit of the Non- Aligned Movement to be held in Kuala Lumpur next week.