PUIC Secretary General Hails Morocco’s Interest in Strengthening Islamic Cooperation Under HM the King’s Leadership

Secretary General of the Union of Councils of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member States, Muhammad Qureshi Nias hailed, here on Tuesday, Morocco’s interest in strengthening Islamic cooperation under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, Chairman of the Al Quds Committee, highlighting the Sovereign’s high solicitude for the Palestinian cause and the Holy City. Speaking at the opening of the 52nd meeting of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States, held at the House of Representatives, Qureshi Nias welcomed the Kingdom’s sustained action to achieve the Union’s objectives.  He highlighted that, in 2001, Rabat had hosted the second session of the Union Conference of Councils of OIC Member States and three ordinary meetings of the Executive Committee, the most recent of which being the third extraordinary meeting of the Committee, held in 2019. The Executive Committee of the Union of Councils of OIC Member States convenes at least twice a year, in the presence of at least ten of its fifteen members, to examine applications for membership of the Union, issue an opinion on the draft agenda of the General Committee and the Conference, monitor the work and activities of the General Secretariat and fulfill other missions entrusted to it by the General Committee or the Conference. The agenda for the two-day meeting, which will culminate in the adoption of the Rabat Declaration, includes the election of the Bureau, the adoption of the agenda and work program, the reading and adoption of the Secretary General of the Union’s report, the establishment of the draft agenda of Permanent Specialized Committees and Sub-Committees, in addition to the adoption of the draft agenda of the 26ᵉ session of the General Committee of the Union and the 19ᵉ session of the PUIC Conference.