Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali is leading an eight-member Bangladesh delegation to the 7th Extraordinary Summit of the OIC in Istanbul Friday.













The Summit has been convened by the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in his capacity as Chair of the OIC Summit, said a press release of the foreign ministry.
Ali is taking part in the event as the Chair of the 45th Council of Foreign Minister.
The Summit is focusing on the massacre of the peaceful Palestinian civilian protesters by the Israeli forces as well as on the official opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May 2018.
Mahmood Ali would convey that the people and the government of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina strongly condemn and totally reject the Israeli atrocities, deplore the US relocation of the embassy, and express full support, sympathy and solidarity with the Palestinian brothers and sisters in their legitimate cause of an independent, viable and contiguous state of Palestine under a two-state solution.
The Foreign Minister’s delegation includes Security Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister Tarique Ahmed Siddique, Bangladesh PR to OIC Ambassador Golam Moshi, Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey M Allama Siddiki, and other senior officials of the ministry and Bangladesh missions.
Bangladesh Foreign Minister has begun his busy day by attending the Council of Foreign Ministers preparatory to the Summit as chair of the current CFM in the podium, while Tarique Ahmed Siddique led Bangladesh delegation in the Council meeting.
The Council was preceded by the Senior Official Meeting (SOM) Thursday that prepared the draft final communique and the Bangladesh delegation to the SOM was led by Ambassador AFM Gousal Azam Sarker, director general of the foreign ministry.