OIC chief attends Syria Support Group meeting in Munich

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Sunday 14 Feb 2016 - 10:56 Makkah mean time-5-5-1437 OIC chief Iyad Madani Munich (IINA) – Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani participated in the meeting of the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), held in Munich, Germany, on February 11-12. The OIC is a member of the ISSG. The meeting, which was co-chaired by the United States and Russia, brought together under one roof the 17 members of the ISSG. They discussed issues to ensuring humanitarian access to all besieged areas in Syria and achieving nationwide cessation of hostilities as well as resuming political talks. The meeting was aimed at addressing the critical situation in Syria and to come up with concrete commitments of the influential parties to put an immediate end to the suffering of civilian population, who are facing dire humanitarian conditions, in many besieged areas in the country. The participants decided to elaborate modalities for reaching urgent steps to implement the provisions of the UN resolution 2254, particularly those related to delivery of the humanitarian aid to the areas under siege, achieving a nationwide cessation of hostilities within one week and advancing a political transition through the engagement of all parties in negotiations under the auspices of the United Nations as soon as possible, without preconditions. The meeting established two task forces dedicated to work on unhindered humanitarian access and on a ceasefire in Syria in view to create conducive conditions for a political solution and a significant reduction of violence. These task forces, which will be under the leadership of the UN, are open to all ISSG members. On the sidelines of the meeting, the OIC Secretary General held bilateral meetings with the UN Special Envoy for Syria, the foreign ministers of Iran, Oman, Qatar and Egypt as well as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State to discuss regional and international issues of mutual interest.  AB/IINA