OIC Committee urges reinforcing Arabic in Africa

Jeddah, June 29, SPA -- The works of the 16th Meeting of the OIC
Committee for the Coordination of Joint Islamic Action in the field
of Da’ wa (Call) were concluded at the headquarters of the World
Islamic Call Society in the Libyan capital - Tripoli on June 23,
according to a press release issued here yesterday by the
Organization of Islamic Conference.

At the end of the three-day deliberations, the participants of the
meeting adopted the report of the Committee's Working Group adopted
at its meeting held in Cairo on May 17-18, 2009 and the proposed
projects it included, in the framework of the implementation of the
Ten-Year Programme of Action endorsed by the Extraordinary Islamic
Summit Conference held in Makkah Al-Mukarramah in 2005.

The final report of the meeting called in its recommendations for
the necessity to give greater importance to da’ wa, cultural and
humanitarian action in the African Continent, and to start
implementing joint projects under the umbrella of the OIC.

The Final Report also called for reinforcing the presence of the
Arabic Language in the African Continent, activating its programmes
and for providing general support to Muslim communities to enable
them to establish educational institutions and preserve their
identity.

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