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REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS
ADOPTED BY THE
(SESSION OF AL-QUDS AL-SHARIF, CONCORD AND
UNITY
DAKAR, REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL
3 - 5 JUMADA II, 1412H (9-11 DECEMBER 1991)
On the Standing
Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs.
On the Children
in Islamic Countries.
On adopting a
Unified Stand on the attack on Islamic Sanctities and Values.
On the Role of
Women in Islamic Society.
On Cooperation in
the field of Youth and Sports.
On Confiscating
the Documents and Registers of the Shari'ah Court in Al-Quds.
on the Islamic
Solidarity Fund and its Waqf.
REPORT ON THE
ADOPTED BY THE
(SESSION OF AL-QUDS AND AL-SHARIF, CONCORD
AND UNITY)
DAKAR, REPUBLIC OF SENEGAL
29 JUMADA I TO 3 JUMADA II, 1412H ((5-8
DECEMBER 1991)
The Cultural, Social and Information
Affairs Committee of the Preparatory Ministerial Meeting for the Sixth Islamic
Summit Conference (Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity), met on 5, 6
and 7 December 1991, to examine the items placed on the agenda concerning
Cultural, Social and Information Affairs whose examination had been assigned to
it by the Ministerial Meeting. All the member States participating in the
Ministerial meeting took part in the deliberations of the Committee.
The OIC Secretary-General was represented
by H. E. Mohamed Mohsen, Assistant Secretary-General in charge of Cultural,
Social and Information Affairs.
The following subsidiary organs,
specialized and affiliated institutions participated in the Committee's
proceedings:
- Subsidiary Organs:
-Islamic Fiqh Academy
-Research Centre for Islamic
History, Art and Culture
-International Commission for the
Preservation of Islamic Heritage
-Islamic Solidarity Fund
-Islamic University of Niger
-Islamic University of Uganda
- Specialized Institutions:
-International Islamic News Agency
-Islamic States Broadcasting Organization
-Islamic Foundation for Science,
Technology and Development
-Islamic Committee of the
International Crescent.
- Affiliated Institutions:
-Organization of Islamic Capitals
and Cities
-World Federation of International
Arab-Islamic Schools
The deliberations of the meeting were
chaired by His Excellency Mr. Moustapha Ka, Minister of Culture of the Republic
of Senegal, on 5/12/1991. They were chaired by His Excellency Mr. Makhtar Kebe,
Minister of Communication of the Republic of Senegal, on 6 and 7 December 1991.
Opening the deliberations, Mr. Moustapha Ka
welcomed the delegations to Senegal which considers as their second homeland,
and stressed the importance of the items submitted to their attention. He then
explained the method and programme of work of the Committee, which were
unanimously approved.
Proceeding to consideration of the items
placed on its agenda, the Committee heard, during its three working sessions,
introductory presentations made by the OIC General Secretariat and the officials
of subsidiary organs and specialized and affiliated institutions, summing up the
reports they had prepared, and then closely examined the draft resolutions
submitted to it.
At the conclusion of thorough, open and
fruitful discussions, the Committee adopted, after amendments, the following seven
draft resolutions:
-A Draft Resolution on the Standing
Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs;
-A Draft Resolution on the Unified
Stand to be adopted regarding Denigration of Islamic Institutions and Values;
-A Draft Resolution on Cooperation
in the fields of Youth and Sports;
-A Draft Resolution on the Child in
the Islamic countries;
-Draft Resolution on the Role of
the Woman in Muslim Society;
-Draft Resolution on the Islamic
Solidarity Fund and its Waqf.
-Draft Resolution on the
Confiscation of the documents and archives of Al-Quds Al-Sharif.
At general level, the Committee shared the
preoccupations expressed in the reports of the officials in charge of the
subsidiary organs, the specialized and affiliated institutions and the Islamic
Universities of Niger and Uganda concerning
the financial difficulties hindering their activities.
The Committee congratulated them for the accomplishments made thanks to
the efforts they exerted.
In this respect, it expressed its thanks to
the Member States hosting the headquarters of these organs, institutions and
universities for the moral and material support they extend to them.
The Committee also expressed its thanks and
gratitude to the individuals and the financial charitable institutions which
contribute to the functioning of cultural and information institutions through
their generous donations.
At particular level, the Committee urged
the Member States which have not yet done so to:
-join the Islamic Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization;
-sign and ratify the convention
establishing the Islamic Committee
of the International Crescent in order to enable it to become operational;
The Committee likewise urged Member States
to:
-support the efforts made by the
World Federation of International Arab-Islamic Schools;
-provide
support and assistance to the Islamic Institute of Translation set up in
Khartoum by the Government of the Sudan and the OIC;
-Strengtehn
cooperation between their information organs on the one hand, and the
International Islamic News Agency and the Islamic Broadcasting Organization, on
the other.
The Committee
then adopted its report. It
entrusted its Chairman with submitting the said report and draft resolutions to
the plenary of the Preparatory Ministerial Meeting for the Six Islamic Summit
Conference.
At the end of its proceedings, the
Committee expressed its sincere thanks and deep gratitude to the Government the
Republic of Senegal for the generous hospitality extended to the delegations and
for the excellent measures taken to ensure the success of the Preparatory
Ministerial Conference for the Sixth Islamic Summit.
The Committee expressed its profound thanks
and sincere congratulations to its Chairman for his competence and efficiency
which led to the fruitful results obtained by the meeting.
In turn, the Chairman expressed on behalf
of the Bureau, his sincere thanks and deep appreciation to the delegations and
the General Secretariat for having assisted him in conducting the proceedings of
the meeting and for having contributed to its success.
The Committee expressed its deep
appreciation to the OIC General Secretariat, subsidiary organs, and specialized
and affiliated institutions for their effective
contribution to the Meeting's proceedings.
Finally, it expressed its thanks to the
interpreters and the technical staff for the efforts made towards the success of
the meeting.
ON THE STANDING COMMITTEE FOR INFORMATION
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal, from 3 to 5 Jumada Al Thani 1412H (9-11 December 1991),
Recalling Resolution 13/3-P (IS) adopted by the
Third Islamic Summit Conference, held in Makkah Al Mukarramah/Taif, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, from 19 to 22 Rabi Al-Awal 1401H (25-28 January 1981), whereby the
Standing Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs was set up;
Recalling Resolution 3/4-ORG (IS) of the Fourth
Islamic Summit Conference approving the preparation of a Cultural Strategy, as
proposed by the First COMIAC Session, held in Dakar in January 1983;
Recalling Resolution 1/5-C (IS) of the Fifth Islamic
Summit Conference calling for the convening of the First Islamic Conference of
Information Ministers.
Further recalling Resolution No. 6/18-AF adopted by the
Eighteenth Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers, held in Riyadh in March 1989
by which it decided to establish an Islamic Communication Centre;
Keeping in mind the pledge made by Member States in the Makkah
Al-Mukarramah Declaration to coordinate their efforts in the fields of
education, culture and science with a view to achieving the development of man
in all respects, ensuring that Muslims be spiritually brought together and
purifying Islamic thought from all alien or divisive elements.
Recalling the commitment made by Member States in
the same Makkah Declaration to develop their information media and structures in
order to turn them into an instrument for the reform of society, the expression
of their identity, the defense of Islam, the dissemination of its precepts and
of its harmonious spiritual development;
Recalling COMIAC's role, which consists in following
up implementation of the Islamic Conference decisions, studying the means to
promote and consolidate cooperation among Member States, and developing
programmes to enhance Member States' capabilities in the fields of information
and culture;
Having taken cognizance of the report submitted by the Chairman of
the Standing Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs, His Excellency
Mr. Abdou DIOUF, President of the Republic of Senegal, and of the
decisions and recommendations of the Committee's third and fourth sessions, held
in Dakar under his distinguished Chairmanship, respectively on 14-16 June 1990
(21-23 Dhul Qidah 1410H) and 31 October-2 November 1991 (24-26 Rabiul Thani
1412H);
Noting with concern the financial difficulties which have
hindered the satisfactory implementation, by the OIC General Secretariat,
subsidiary organs and specialized
institutions, of the plans and programmes of activities approved by the relevant
authorities in the fields of information and culture;
Noting with satisfaction the convening, under COMIAC auspices, of
the First Islamic Conference of Information Ministers, in Jeddah, Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, on 11 and 12 October 1988 (1 and 2 Rabi Al-Awal 1409H) and of the
First Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers, held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal, on 23 and 24 January 1989 (16 and 17 Jumada Al-Thani 1409H);
1. Approves the decisions and
recommendations made by the third and fourth COMIAC sessions.
2. Adopts the Cultural Strategy of
the Islamic World as submitted by COMIAC to the Sixth Islamic Summit in document
CSPAIN/2-91/D.1/REV.1. and invites the COMIAC to study ways and means for its
implementation.
3. Also Adopts the measures
advocated by His Excellency President Abdou DIOUF in his report in the following
areas:
a) in the field of information: the
implementation of the OIC Information Plan, the proceedings of the First Islamic
Conference of Information Ministers.
b) in the field of culture:
resolving the financial problems faced by the Islamic World, the universities
and cultural institutions, the implementation of the Dakar Declaration on
cooperation and cultural development in the Islamic world and the Islamic
Conference of Ministers of Youth and Sports.
c)In the social field: the
implementation of a solidarity programme for the family and the child; the
development of social and educational centres in mosques for the eradication of
begging; the implementation of a concerted strategy for the struggle against the
growing pauperization of Muslim families particularly in developing countries.
d)Calls
upon Member States which has not as yet sign or ratify the Constituent
Agreement of the Islamic Committee of the International Crescent to do so as
early as possible so that it may be able to undertake its noble objectives.
4. Encourages COMIAC to
pursue the achievement of its objectives and urges Member States to provide it
with moral and material support so as to facilitate its mission.
5. Launches a pressing
appeal to all Member States to settle their arrears and pay regularly their
contributions to the budgets of the General Secretariat, the subsidiary organs
and the specialized institutions which are entrusted with cultural and
information activities.
6. Also urges Member States
to make annual donations to the budget of the Islamic Solidarity Fund and to the
Information Plan in order to promote the development of Islamic action in the
fields of information and culture.
7. Recommends the
undertaking of the procedures for the pairing of the universities of Member
States with those of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, and calls
for the provision of all kinds of support, financial and educational assistance
for the universities in the occupied territories as well as for the Free
University in Al-Quds Al-Sharif; while at the same time offering facilities, to
the Palestinian students, to attend the universities and specialized institutes
in Member States.
8. Expresses its sincere
thanks, deep gratitude and great appreciation to His Excellency Mr. Abdou DIOUF,
President of the Republic of Senegal and Chairman of COMIAC for the keen
interest he has constantly taken and the sustained efforts he has constantly
exerted for the promotion of information, the development of culture and the
enhancement of Islamic thought.
9. Expresses its sincere
thanks and deep gratitude to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and to the Republic of
Senegal for having hosted the First Islamic Conference of Information Ministers
and the First Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers respectively.
10. Requests the Secretary
General to follow up the implementation of the present resolution and present a
report on its implementation to COMIAC and to the annual session of the Islamic
Conference of Foreign Ministers.
ON
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity),
held in Dakar, Republic of Senegal, from 3 to 5 Jumada II, 1412H (9-11
December 1991);
Guided by the teachings of Islam which stress the
need for taking due care of children and of granting them their rights;
Welcoming the successful conclusion of the World
Summit for Children in New York on 29 and 30 September 1990;
Bearing in mind the Declaration and Plan of Action for
Survival, Protection and Development of Children in the 1990s adopted at the
Summit, which assigns important tasks for the well-being of children to all
signatory Heads of State/Government;
Taking into account the positive contribution of the Member
States to the success of the Summit as well as to the preparation and adoption
of the Declaration and Plan of Action;
Recalling the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in
Islam which stipulates the necessity of safeguarding children's rights and
obligations of states thereon;
1. Stresses the importance
that the Member States attach to the conclusions of the Summit and invite them
to take concrete follow-up measures at national, regional and sub-regional
levels.
2. Reaffirms its commitment
in favour of implementation, by all Member States, of the decisions stemming
from the Summit.
3. Invites all Member States
to integrate children's issues into their cooperation programmes.
4. Urges Member States to
continue to participate in follow-up
activities undertaken at the international level, especially those initiated by
the relevant bodies of the United Nations.
5. Decides to enhance
consultation among Member States in order to work jointly on all matters
pertaining to the adoption of specific measures designed to meet the particular
needs of children.
6. Decides also to prepare an
Islamic Action Plan to promote the implementation within the Member States of
the Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by the World Summit for Children and
requests the Secretary General to present a draft of such an Action Plan at the
next Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers;
7. Urges Member States to consider
becoming a party to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in keeping
with the Declaration of Human Rights in Islam;
8. Calls
for the provision of special Islamic education and well-stocked libraries
for children as well as Islamic programmes to be broadcast by all mass media;
9. Calls upon UNICEF to give special
attention to Palestinian children suffering from Israeli brutality, particularly
by providing health care, cultural amenities, and information about their causes
through the mass media, especially on World Child Day;
10. Supports the convening, in 1992,
of an international donors conference on assistance to African children in order
to mobilize the Community within the framework of the Decade for the Survival
and Development of the African Child;
11. Recognises the crucial role that
the solution of the debt problem will have on the welfare and well-being of
children and, in that context, supports the realisation of the concept of
"Debt Relief for Child Survival and Development" as an important
component of reduction of the debt burden for developing countries;
12. Decides
to convene a Ministerial Conference of Member States on the question of
Survival, Protection and Development of Children.
13. Calls
on the General Secretariat to
hold a symposium on "Child Care in Islam", in collaboration with the
Islamic Fiqh Academy and specialist Muslim experts, with a view to preparing a
document on "Children's Rights in Islam".
ON
The Sixth
Islamic Summit Conference (Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and
Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of Senegal, from 3 to 5 Jumada II 1412H (9-11
December 1991),
Inspired by the teachings of the Holy Quran and
the Prophet's blessed Sunnah, emphasizing the necessity
of preserving the Holy Quran and respecting
the Messenger (Allah's prayers and
peace be upon him), his blessed Sunnah, his family and noble and companions, as
well as sacred places and Islamic values,
Recalling the declarations and resolutions adopted
by the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Islamic Conferences of Foreign
Ministers regarding joint action in defence of Islamic sanctities and values;
Noting the persistence of certain forms of hostile aggression
against the Islamic values and heritage, particularly the latest Zionist moves,
including the attack against the Islamic Court in Al-Quds Al-Sharif and its
historical documents, in order to desecrate that heritage;
1. Reaffirms, once again, the
provisions of the declarations and resolutions adopted by the Islamic
Conferences of Foreign Ministers in this respect.
2. Strongly condemns all forms of
cultural aggression, impelled by hatred for Islam and its sanctities; and
stresses in particular its condemnation of the recent Zionist attack against the
Shar'ia Court in Al-Quds Al-Sharif.
3. Requests all Member States to
adopt firm stand in all earnestness, so as to check such hostile aggression; and
calls on all countries of the world to ensure respect for these sanctities and
prohibit any aggression against them.
4. Requests the Secretary General of
the Organization of the Islamic Conference to take the necessary measures for
the drafting of an international convention to ensure respect for sanctities and
values, and to submit a progress report thereon to the following Islamic
Conference of Foreign Ministers.
ON THE
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of AL-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal, from 3 to 5 Jumada Al-Thani 1412H (9-11 December 1991),
Proceeding from the teachings of the tolerant Shariah
in safeguarding the rights of the woman in the Muslim family, and in emphasizing
the woman's privileged personality and her role in the development of Islamic
Society;
Recalling the different resolutions adopted by
previous Islamic Summits and Ministerial Conferences on women;
Acknowledging that women play an increasingly important
role in the propagation and preservation of Islamic fundamental values in the
family and society;
Convinced that these noble ideals cannot be achieved
without the effective participation of Muslim women who constitute a major
pillar in Islamic Society;
Noting that this stage in the evolution of the
Islamic Ummah requires the combined efforts of all parties to work in the fields
of development and particularly the development of the role of women;
Noting with appreciation the offer made by the Islamic Republic of
Iran to host a meeting of experts;
1. Requests the Secretary
General to convene an enlarged symposium at experts level to develop an
appropriate mechanism for ensuring active participation of women in the fields
of social development.
2. Calls for the convening
of a Conference of Ministers in charge of women's affairs in the Member States
to consider the possibility of coordination among them in light of the results
of the Symposium.
3. Requests the Secretary
General to submit a detailed report on the role of women in the development of
Islamic countries to the Twentyfirst Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers,
and to make specific recommendations aimed at promoting closer cooperation in
this field.
ON
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of Al-Quds AL-Sharif, Concord and Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal from 3-5 Jumada Al Thani, 1412H, (9-11 December 1991),
Proceeding from the importance attached by
Islam to spiritual and physical education;
Considering the importance of sports and youth
activities in the promotion of solidarity among the youth of the countries of
the Islamic Ummah;
Conscious of the fundamental and indispensable role
to be played by the youth of different Islamic countries in order to strengthen
and consolidate the unity of the Islamic Ummah;
Taking into account the difficulties and obstacles impeding
the functioning of the Sports Federation of Islamic Solidarity whose objective
was to prepare a programme for sports and youth exchange among the countries of
the Ummah;
1. Decides to promote
rapprochement and understanding among
the youth of the Islamic Ummah through practice of sports, youth and cultural
activities;
2. Decides also to develop
cooperation among OIC Member States in the following fields:
a)-organisation
of sports competitions and exchange in youth and cultural fields;
b)-construction
of sports social and educational infrastructures;
c)-promotion
of exchanges in the field of sports medicine;
d)-allocation
of scholarships for training and research in the fields of sports, physical
education and youth activities;
e)-promotion
of social, economic and cultural development projects for the youth;
3. Invites the Secretary General to
set up an Expert Committee and to entrust it with the task of further examining
the proposals contained in this resolution and preparing the first Islamic
Conference of Ministers of Youth and Sports.
4. Entrusts the Secretary General to
take necessary measures for the implementation of this resolution and requests
him to submit a Report thereon to the Twenty-first Islamic Conference of Foreign
Ministers.
ON
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal, from 3 to 5 Jumada II 1412H (9 to 11 December 1991),
Noting that UNESCO included the city of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, in
1983, on the endangered World Heritage List, and that Member States must, in
accordance with the World Heritage Committee Charter, provide material and
technical assistance, for the preservation of that heritage;
In-view-of the fact that the Israeli Occupation
Authorities have not till now responded to the UNESCO and UN Resolutions not to
encroach on that heritage but rather did harm to it - by destroying or setting
fire to it, confiscating it, or undertaking excavations which had vast adverse
effects on the Islamic historic sites alone;
Recalling that, in defiance of all International
Conventions, the Geneva Convention, and Human Rights Standards, the Israeli
occupation authorities, forcibly entered the premises of the Shari'ah Court in
Al-Quds Al-Sharif, using armed soldiers who destroyed doors and windows,
tampered with the contents of the building, and confiscated whole sets of
documents and registers of Islamic Waqfs, covering Shari'ah and historical
aspects of the holy City and its people over a period of seven hundred years;
Considering that this ignoble act clearly indicates
the extent to which the Israeli authorities slight the United Nations, the
UNESCO and the Geneva Convention;
1. Condemns and denounces this
Israeli aggression against the Cultural and Religious heritage in the City of
Al-Quds.
2. Requests the United Nations and
the UNESCO to denounce this act and call upon Israel to return all the
confiscated documents and registers at once.
3. Demands that no act of aggression
is committed in future against the Islamic sanctities and heritage.
ON
The Sixth Islamic Summit Conference
(Session of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Concord and Unity), held in Dakar, Republic of
Senegal from 3 to 5 Jumada Al Thani 1412H (9-11 December 1991),
Recalling Resolution 6/2-C(I.S.) of the Second
Islamic Summit Conference, held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, in 1394
(1974) concerning the establishment of the Islamic Solidarity Fund;
Recalling also Resolution 1/3-C (IS) adopted by the Third Islamic Summit Conference,
held in Makkah Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in 1401H (1981) which
urged all Member States to provide the necessary support to the budgets of the
Islamic Solidarity Fund and to contribute towards the paid up capital of the ISF
Waqf amounting to 100 million dollars, so as to secure a fixed income that will
enable the Fund to achieve the goal of self-financing of its annual budgets, and
to continue to perform its noble task;
Recalling further Resolution No. 19/4-C (IS) adopted
by the Fourth Islamic Summit Conference, held in Casablanca, Kingdom of Morocco,
in 1404H (1984), which requested Member States to pledge annual voluntary
contributions to the Fund in accordance with their material means, and also to
augment their contributions to the capital of the Fund's Waqf;
Recalling also Resolution 3/5-C(IS), adopted by the
Fifth Islamic Summit (Islamic Solidarity Session) held in Kuwait, in 1407H
(1987) which stressed the importance of the activities of the Islamic Solidarity
Fund, and of its objectives which aim at strengthening the solidarity of the
Islamic Ummah through its participation in religious, cultural, scientific and
social projects and programmes, whether in Member States, or for the benefit of
Muslim Communities and minorities in non-Member States;
Cognizant of the contents of the report of the
Secretary General which underscored the critical financial situation of the Fund
and having taken note of these difficulties constraints encountered by the Fund
in financing its budget and implementing its programmes over the recent years;
Noting with appreciation the achievements of the Islamic
Solidarity Fund during the past seventeen years and conscious of the need for
assistance for the strengthening and development of the cultural infrastructure
of the Islamic Communities;
Noting with satisfaction the realization of an important part
(44%) of the Waqf capital of the Islamic Solidarity Fund, and the necessity of
working to raise its capital to the amount of one hundred million dollars to
yield a fixed income enabling the
Fund of self-financing its own annual budgets.
Expressing its keenness to increase the
potentialities of this Fund as well as its financial capabilities so that it may
in a position to have an impact on the civilization infrastructure of the Muslim
communities and raise the level of its assistance to the institutions
it sponsors in the Muslim world, to that which is commensurable to the
aspirations of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference and its capable of
achieving its cultural, spiritual and social objectives:
1. Welcomes the progress made for
the realization of the capital of the Waqf of the Islamic Solidarity Fund and
invites the Secretary General and the Permanent Council to continue their
efforts in this direction for the strengthening of the financial capacities of
the Fund.
2. Expresses its thanks and
appreciation to the Member States which have made generous and regular donations
to the Fund and its Waqf in particular the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the State of
Kuwait, the State of the United Arab Emirates, the Republic of Tunisia, the
Republic of Turkey, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. It urges Member States
which have already pledged their contributions to the capital of the Fund's Waqf
to kindly make these contributions available as soon as possible in order to
enable their investment by the Board of Trustees of the Waqf
for the strengthening of the financial capacities of the Fund.
3. Expresses its thanks to
individuals who have generously contributed to the strengthening of the
financial capacities of the Fund and urges all Muslims who have got the means to
continue their support for the Fund and it's Waqf.
4. Reiterates the
importance of the functions and objectives of the Islamic Solidarity Fund
which aim at strengthening the solidarity of the Muslim Ummah by contributing to
the implementation of the religious, cultural, scientific and social projects
and programmes, whether in Member States or in the interest of Muslim
communities and minorities in non member states.
5. Urges Member States to make voluntary annual donations according to
their respective means, to the budget of the Islamic Solidarity Fund, and also
to contribute to the capital of the ISF Waqf and requests the Secretary General
and the Chairman of the Permanent Council of the Fund to make the necessary
contacts with the governments of Member States in this respect.
6. Reaffirms the provisions of
paragraphs 3 and 4 of Resolution 1/3-C(IS) adopted by the Third Islamic Summit
Conference and launching of fund-raising campaigns in favour of the fund of its
Waqf once a year, during the Blessed Month of Ramadhan as it is the month of
Islamic solidarity and requests each Member State to designate its competent
authority entrusted with the task of organising the fund-raising campaigns in
cooperation with the Secretary General and the Chairman of the Permanent
Council. It urges financial, commercial and industrial institutions as well as
individuals in member states to generously participate in these campaigns and to
donate to the Fund and to its Waqf.
7. Invites the Secretary General and
the ISF Permanent Council to organise periodic visits to Islamic States with a
view to explaining the noble objectives of the Fund and its Waqf, and to collect
voluntary contributions for them.
8. Requests the Permanent Council to
continue the assistance by the Fund to cultural, social and educational projects
in the Islamic world, while according priority attention to projects initiated
by the Islamic Summits and Foreign Ministers Conferences.
9. Request the Secretary General to
submit an annual report, to the Current Chairman of Islamic Summit Conference,
on the implementation of this resolution.