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Wilf Day
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posted 30 June 2008 06:14 AM
Romeo Dallaire, Alexa McDonough, Bill Blaikie, Marlene Jennings, Paul Dewar, Libby Davies, Bernard Patry, Dawn Black, Peter Julian, Colleen Beaumier, Peter Stoffer and Johanne Deschamps have joined an international Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, or UNPA. "The enthusiastic response of these politicians demonstrates that lawmakers elected at the national level see the necessity of an elected body at the global level and that they now want to take action," said Andreas Bummel, head of the UNPA Campaign Secretariat, headquartered in Berlin.Supported by 11 civil society groups in Canada. Endorse the appeal.
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Wilf Day
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posted 10 July 2008 06:58 PM
Pakistan calls for the Organization of the Islamic Conference to have proportional representation on an expanded Security Council.
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Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in OIC ambassadorial meeting at UN Headquarters in New York. . . called on Islamic countries to play a significant role in the Security Council and in its reform and expansion. Noting that the OIC constitutes more than one-fourth of the UN membership, he said it should have proportional representation on an expanded Security Council, specially since the Council’s agenda contains many items of direct concern to the Islamic countries. “In our joint statements, the Islamic Foreign Ministers have categorically stressed that any reform of the Security Council in any category of membership must ensure adequate representation of the OIC member States. This should remain the minimum goal for our Group in the future discussions of this issue at the United Nations.”
The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations which has membership of 57 states spread over four continents.
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In 1970 the first ever meeting of Islamic Conference of Foreign Minister (ICFM) was held in Jeddah which decided to establish a permanent secretariat in Jeddah headed by the organization’s secretary general. Prof Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu is the 9th Secretary General who assumed the office in January 2005 after being elected by the 31st ICFM.The Charter of the Organization was adopted by the Third ICFM in 1972 which laid down the objectives and principles of the organization and fundamental purposes to strengthen the solidarity and cooperation among the member states. Over the last 38 years, the membership has grown from its founding members of 30 to 57 states. The Organization has the singular honor to galvanize the Ummah into a unified body and have actively represented the Muslims by espousing all causes close to the hearts of over 1.5 billion Muslims of the world.
In addition to the obvious members it includes seven Muslim-majority sub-Saharan states: Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Sierra Leone; and ten other sub-Saharan states: Nigeria (47%), Guinea-Bissau (45%), Côte d'Ivoire (35 - 40%), Burkina-Faso (30%), Benin (24%), Cameroon (20%), Mozambique (20%), Togo (15%), Gabon (12%), and Uganda (12%), but not Tanzania (35%). It also includes Suriname(20%) and Guyana (7%). Observers include Central African Republic (15%) and Bosnia and Herzegovina.[ 10 July 2008: Message edited by: Wilf Day ]
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