Riyadh hosts OIC experts

A team of governmental experts from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference member states has recommended collective Islamic efforts to enable Muslim minorities and communities in non-OIC states to retain their religious and cultural identity as well as to ensure the protection of these communities by the governments concerned on the grounds of abidance by principles of international law and honoring regional sovereignty.

At the conclusion of their fourth meeting, held at the headquarters of the OIC general secretariat in Jeddah, the expert team called for drawing up a formula for cooperation between the OIC and the governments of countries where those Muslim minorities live in order to improve their conditions and preserve their religious and cultural identity.

ForeignmMinisters of the OIC member states had called in their 23rd conference which was held in Conakry in 1995 for studying the conditions of Muslim groups and minorities in non-OIC states.