Organisation of Islamic Cooperation begins operations in Kabul

KABUL (SW) – The Director General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation office in Afghanistan, Dr Muhammad Saeed Al-Ayash, has assumed office in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday 4 March 2022.

It said in a series of tweets that the move was within the framework of the OIC’s attention to the situation in Afghanistan and its endeavour to follow up implementation of the outcome of the extraordinary ministerial meeting held in Pakistan last December.
“The Kabul office will coordinate the #OIC’s humanitarian efforts with #Afghanistan and international partners. It will be strengthened with human and material resources in conformity with the resolution adopted by the extraordinary ministerial conference on Afghanistan”.

An OIC resolution released in December after the meeting said the Islamic Development Bank would lead the effort to free up assistance by the first quarter of 2022.

It also urged Afghanistan’s rulers to abide by “obligations under international human rights covenants, especially with regards to the rights of women, children, youth, elderly and people with special needs”.

The OIC meeting did not give the new Taliban government any formal international recognition and Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi was excluded from the official photograph taken during the event.

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