ISLAMABAD – Pakistan will host the 48th session of the Council of ForeignMinisters of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in 2021.
Positively responding to Pakistan’s offer, the forum decided it during the47th CFM session held in Niger, the foreign office said in a statement.
As the prospective CFM Chair, Pakistan has also become a member of the6-member OIC Executive Committee for the next three years, it added.
Pakistan is a founding member of the OIC. It has always played an importantrole in promoting the role of OIC as a collective voice of Muslim Ummah.
The OIC is the second largest inter-governmental Organization after theUnited Nations, with 57 members and 5 observer states spanning over fourcontinents.
In 47th session, the CFM reaffirmed its strong support for the Kashmircause by unanimously adopting Pakistan-sponsored resolution.
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The OIC categorically rejected illegal and unilateral actions taken byIndia since 5 August 2019.
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The resolution demands that India “cancel the issuance of domicilecertificates to non-Kashmiris” as well as other unilateral and illegalactions, including “Jammu & Kashmir Reorganization Order 2020”, “Jammu &Kashmir Grant of Domicile Certificate Rules 2020”, “Jammu and KashmirLanguage Bill 2020” and amendments to the landownership laws.
In a landmark development, the Organisation of Islamic Council (OIC) alsounanimously adopted a Pakistan-sponsored resolution regarding Islamophobia.
