UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon visits the OIC Headquarters
JEDDAH. June 4. KAZINFORM The Secretary General of the United Nations Mr. Ban Ki-moon was received by the OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the Headquarters of the Organization on June 3, 2012.
This is for the first time in the history of the OIC that a UN Secretary General visited its Headquarters. The visit came as a result of the ever strengthening cooperation between the OIC and the UN since Secretaries General Ihsanoglu and Ban Ki-Moon took their respective offices.
Leading their individual high level delegations, Secretaries General of the OIC and UN discussed issues of mutual concern ranging from political to socio-economic and humanitarian domains. OIC-UN bilateral cooperation at the level of General Secretariat as well as between the OIC institutions and UN agencies, ongoing and future OIC-UN joint programs and activities including cooperation in the field of mediation and humanitarian assistance, Palestine-Israel peace process, security and humanitarian situation in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Sahel region were raised and discussed during the meeting.
Secretary General Ihsanoglu assured Mr. Ki-moon of OIC's support and cooperation on issues of international concern. UN Secretary General expressed his appreciation for the visionary leadership of Ihsanoglu and reiterated his conviction of OIC being a strategic partner of the UN. He underlined that the UN and OIC together are united in building greater understanding among people and tolerance and cooperation among nations.
Both leaders agreed on continued and close interaction between their respective organizations towards ensuring sustainable cooperation for world peace, security and stability, the OIC official website reports.