Organization of the Islamic Conference in Burkina Faso

Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso) will host this week the annual meeting of foreign ministers of members states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

Over 600 participants representing the organization's member-countries will take part in the meeting that will be opened this Monday by Burkina Faso's president, Blaise Campaore.

The five-day meeting is entitled "peace and partnership for development."

The Jeddah-based pan-Islamic organization said Sunday in a press release the meeting will address all issues related to preparing the Islamic states for the third millennium.

The OIC heads of state are scheduled to meet in Qatar in 2000.

Fifty five Islamic countries are members of the organization, set up 30 years ago in Rabat. Iran holds the OIC's rotating chairmanship while the secretary general is former Moroccan Prime Minister Azeddine Laraki.