A high-profile delegation of representatives of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is going to visit Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar on Friday.
The interested representatives of the OIC-member countries and its different organisations are going to the Rohingya camps on Friday, just a day before beginning of the 45th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers (OIC-CFM) here, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali told a press conference at his ministry.
He said, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to open the two-day
event at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the city on Saturday morning. The theme of this year’s council is ‘Islamic Values for Sustainable Peace, Solidarity and Development’, the minister said. Mahmood Ali said the Rohingya crisis will get a greater focus at the conference as there will be a special session on the issue.
He said, over 550 representatives of the OIC and different international organisations, including around 40 ministers and state ministers, are expected to join the two-day event.
Besides, he said, the Canadian Foreign Minister and its Prime Minister’s special envoy to Myanmar Bob Rae will be present at the conference. With the 45th CFM in Dhaka, the chairmanship of the CFM will pass from incumbent Cote d’Ivoire to Bangladesh for the next one year, the minister said. The foreign minister said the challenges facing by the Muslim Ummah-the conflicts, division, tension and instability of the Muslim world-will get the main focus at the CFM of the OIC. He said the conference will discuss ways for overcoming the humanitarian disasters the Muslims are facing across the globe, and the means to remove the Islam phobia.
