Tag: OIC
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit at Cairo indicates that the 57-member Islamic body has endeavored to evolve a dialogue format to resolve the crisis in Syria. Despite differences among members on sectarian lines, the summit, held on 6th and 7th of February 2013, posed a common front in urging the Syrian government and opposition to engage in ‘serious dialogue’ for the resolution of the conflict… The meeting of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi, the first ever meet between the highest officials of the two countries after a gap of 34 years, was one of the major focus of national and international media. Morsi gave a red carpet welcome to Ahmadinejad…
The Central Intelligence Agency cobbled together the forerunner of the present Muslim jihadist terrorist network in the late 1970s to battle Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Throughout the next three decades, the CIA continued to maintain links with the jihadist groups, using them as allies for certain operations and attacking them when America’s «commitment» to the «war on terrorism» required an propaganda boost in the world’s media… Bin Laden, Hekmatayar, and Haqqani – all one time allies of the CIA – became «problems» in CIA parlance. And like all CIA «problems», they have all possessed one ultimate destiny – termination with extreme prejudice…
Israel and the United States lobbied strenuously to defeat a recent vote by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s World Heritage Committee in St. Petersburg, Russia to name the Church of the Nativity, the birthplace of Jesus, as an endangered heritage site. However, the 21-member UNESCO world heritage body voted 13 to 6 with two abstentions to approve Palestine’s first request to the international organization as a full member. The Church of the Nativity was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site… The UNESCO decision recognized that the birthplace of Jesus was threatened by the presence of Israeli troops…