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Pakistan to host OIC meet on Kashmir, CAA
Why is it in news?
- Pakistan will hold a ministerial meeting of the 57-member Organisation for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Jammu and Kashmir in April 2020.
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- Timing of the announcement: The announcement came days after recently-appointed Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud visited Islamabad and met with the Pakistani leadership.
- Reports in Pak. Media
(1) According to Radio Pakistan, the officials had discussed holding the meeting of ministers of the OIC grouping of Muslim majority countries, led by Saudi Arabia, to focus on the “human rights situation in occupied Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of an anti-Muslim law in India”.
(2) The report added that the ministerial meeting “is expected to be held in Islamabad in April 2020.
- Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC)
(1) It is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states.
(2) It is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations.
(3) The organisation states that it is “the collective voice of the Muslim world” and works to “safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony “.
(4) The OIC has permanent delegations to the United Nations and the European Union.
(5) Permanent Secretariat-Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Source
The Hindu, Wikipedia