OIC Emergency Meeting Planned to Mobilize Efforts to Address Syrian Refugee Crisis
The OIC General Secretariat has addressed invitations to all the Member States to attend the open-ended meeting of the Executive Committee at the permanent representatives’ level and examine the Syrian refugee crisis, the OIC website reported.
According to the agenda, this meeting whose idea proceeds from the principles and objectives of the OIC Charter, falls within the framework of the Ten-year Program of Action and coheres with the various UN and OIC resolutions on the situation in Syria, will examine ways and means to address the humanitarian crisis endured by the Syrian refugees within the region and elsewhere.
Syria has been gripped with civil war since March 2011, when foreign-backed terrorists started a deadly war against the country’s people and government.
According to the United Nations, more than 220,000 people have been killed and one million wounded during the conflict. Many more have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war.
