OIC and India

  • The 47th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of OIC was held at the Mahatma Gandhi International Conference Center in Niamey, Niger.
  • The Mahatma Gandhi International Convention Centre (MGICC), was established in Africa by India in the memory of Mahatma Gandhi whose 150th birth anniversary was observed in 2019.

OIC RESOLUTION 

  • The resolution on Kashmir was part of the “political resolutions” that are approved every year by the Islamic bloc during their annual gathering.
  • The latest OIC political resolution on the “Jammu and Kashmir dispute” calls on India to rescind the constitutional changes introduced on August 5 2020, describing the move as “illegal and unilateral”. 
  • It also stated that India should cancel the issues of domicile certificates to people from outside the union territory. 

RESPONSE OF INDIA

  • India strongly hit out at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), and accused it of making "factually incorrect and unwarranted" references to Jammu and Kashmir in the resolution.
  • It asserted that the union territory is an integral and inalienable part of the country.
OIC
  • It was founded upon a decision of the historical summit which took place in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, in 1969.
  • It has 57 members, 56 of which are also member states of the United Nations. 
  • Headquarters - Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  • Pakistan will become the next chair of the OIC council of foreign ministers, as it has been chosen as the host of the next meeting in 2021.
  • At the 45th session of the Foreign Ministers’ Summit in 2018, Bangladesh, the host, had suggested that India, where more than 10% of the world’s Muslims live, should be given Observer status, but Pakistan opposed the proposal.
  • In 2019, India made its maiden appearance at the OIC Foreign Ministers’ meeting, as a “guest of honour”.

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