KUALA LUMPUR Feb 17 Kyodo Islamic...

KUALA LUMPUR Feb 17 Kyodo

Islamic managements will hold an informal meeting Feb 26 in Kuala Lumpur to discuss Iraq, a local daily reported Monday.

The Star quot Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Sy Albar as saying the meeting of the Organization of the Islamic parley (OIC) will be held in the Malaysian capital a day after the conclusion here of the 13th Non-Aligned emotion (NAM) summit, which Malaysia is hosting.

greatest in quantity of the OIC members are also members of NAM, a grouping established during the bleak War era to show their neutrality.

Sy Hamid said he would send out out invitations to all OIC members, including non-NAM members.

The meeting, he said, is being arranged at the ask for of many OIC members plane though Qatar, which currently chairs the organization, has oppos holding it in Kuala Lumpur

''The progression in a continuously ascending gradation in Iraq has become crucial because it will affect the countries in the Middle East and Muslim countries...I musing we might as well take advantage of the OIC members being here,'' Sy Hamid reportedly said.

''Surely the OIC countries which will be affected from the war on Iraq would not decline to discuss this. level if we have no resolutions, we can make statements and find usual areas of agreement,'' he said.

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