Foreign Secretary of Maldives Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed has departed to Saudi Arabia to participate in the Senior Officials Meeting of the 14th Islamic Summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Foreign Secretary Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed will be in Saudi Arabia on May 27-28 for the enior Officials Meeting ahead of the Islamic Summit of OIC, paving way for President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and Minister of Foreign Affairs to attend the summit on May 31. The session will be chaired by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud.
The Ordinary Session of the Islamic Summit will be convened under the theme: Makkah Al-Mukarramah Summit: Hand in Hand toward the Future. The summit will be attended by the leaders of OIC member states to evolve a unified stance on the ongoing issues and events in the Muslim world.
Foreign secretary is attending the Senior Official meeting, which will submit the outcomes of its deliberations to the meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of OIC member states. The ministers will then submit the draft Final Communiqué to the Islamic Summit for adoption.
It is expected that the Islamic Summit will issue Makkah Declaration and the Final Communiqué, which will address many current issues in the Muslim world. Leaders are expected to consider the position of OIC member states on the latest developments in the Palestinian question and announce a unified stance on recent developments in a number of OIC member States and are also expected to take clear stances on the recent events regarding Muslim communities and minorities, the mounting discourse of hatred against Muslim communities, Islamophobia, the need to counter terrorism and violent extremism, and other political, economic, cultural and social issues of interest to the OIC.
The 13th Session of OIC was held in the Turkey in 2016.