OIC Secretary-General and the President of the ICRC Discuss Ways and Means to Enhance Cooperation

Date: 28/02/2023

H.E. Hissein Brahim Taha, Secretary-General of the OIC, had a meeting, today, Tuesday 28 February 2023, on the sidelines of the 52nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council, with Ms. Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), at the latter’s headquarters in Geneva.

Both sides exchanged views on ways and means to address humanitarian crises currently unfolding in OIC Member States. They particularly examined the latest developments in Palestine and the situation in Afghanistan and the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin.

They stressed the need to scale up bilateral cooperation to promote international humanitarian law and principles.

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