ISLAMABAD: The two-day meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers ended on Wednesday with protestation of support for Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir controversies.
OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha, while speaking at a media conference at the end of the 48th meeting of the 57- member body, said “ Palestine remains high on the docket of OIC and was bandied completely. All sharing ministers reiterated their support for the Palestine cause.
“ The question of Jammu and Kashmir was completely bandied. This is a just beget. It has our full support. The conference reaffirmed our station and reiterated support for the right of Kashmiri people to tone- determination.”
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Forty-six countries shared in the questionable at the clerical position, while the other countries were represented by elderly officers. Nearly 800 delegates attended the meeting hosted by Islamabad. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi was a special guest at the conference. It was the first time in OIC’s history that a Chinese foreign minister attended its foreign ministers’ meeting, indicating Beijing’s expanding part in the Muslim world.
The meeting docket included reflections on the situation in Palestine, Indian Immorally Enthralled Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), and Afghanistan. Also, issues pertaining to Africa and Muslims in Europe and developments in Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Somalia, and Syria were taken up at the meeting. Islamophobia, transnational terrorism, and cooperation in profitable, artistic, social, philanthropic, and scientific disciplines were the other subjects that were bandied.
Islamabad Declaration
A wide-ranging Islamabad Declaration containing as numerous as 70 points was espoused at the meeting by the conference.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, while speaking at the conference, said Palestine and Kashmir were two striking exemplifications of injustice, oppression, occupation, and mortal rights violations.
Mr. Qureshi said a clerical commission of OIC would work with other countries to “ go beyond judgments” on Kashmir and “ chart the way forward”. An action plan will also be formulated in this regard, according to him.
He said the OIC Contact Group on Occupied Kashmir decided that its members would meet more constantly to coordinate their positions on the disagreement and cover mortal rights violations. “We have a clear plan of action (on Kashmir) for the members of the contact group, the clerk general, the secretariat, the special envoy, and the OIC independent endless mortal rights commission,” he maintained.
Islamabad Declaration renewed solidarity with the people of Kashmir and expressed full support for their inalienable right to tone- determination. It, also, condemned the mortal rights violations in the IIOJK and rejected India’s illegal and unilateral conduct related to Kashmir since August 5, 2019.
“ We declare that the final agreement of the Jammu and Kashmir disagreement in agreement with UN Security Council judgments is necessary for durable peace in South Asia. We reiterate our call on India to a) reverse its unilateral and illegal measures introduced since 5th August 2019; b) cease its oppression and mortal rights violations against the Kashmiris in IIOJK; c) halt and rear attempts to alter the demographic structure and to redraw electoral constituencies in IIOJK; and d) take concrete and meaningful way for full perpetration of the UN Security Council judgments on Jammu and Kashmir,” the OIC actors stated in the Islamabad Declaration.
Indian bullet failure
The OIC foreign ministers also expressed concern over an Indian bullet striking a structure in a Pakistani home on March 9 and put their weight behind Pakistan’s demand for a common inquiry to directly establish data.
“ We admit Pakistan’s vital part as an anchor of stability in South Asia, and recommend its part and sweats for creation of indigenous peace, grounded on the UN Charter principles including autonomous equivalency of States, political independence, non-use or trouble of use of force and pacific agreement of controversies,” the foreign ministers noted.
Mr. Qureshi said the participation of the Chinese foreign minister indicated Beijing’s desire to expand ties with Muslim countries and its amenability to invest about$ 400 million in Muslim countries under its Belt and Road Initiative.
