Islamabad to get Rs5bn facelift as host of OIC summit

Date

9/2/2015 3:40:00 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula)

ISLAMABAD: The government of Pakistan has decided to hold summit of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in befitting manner on November 11 this year.

It would be third summit of the OIC Pakistan will be hosting. The last summit was first extraordinary summit of the OIC and it was also held during Nawaz Sharif as Prime Minister in March 1997.

Highly placed sources said yestersday that the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Saudi King Salman bin Abdel Aziz President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan President Iran Dr Hasan Rouhani President UAE Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Indonesia President Joko Widodo Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razzak Qatar’s Emir Shaikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani Egyptian President Field Marshal Abdel Fatah Al-Sisi Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Iraq President Fuad Masum Algerian President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika Jordanian King Abdullah II Kuwait Emir Shaikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jabar Al-Sabah President Palestine Mahmoud Abbas Azerbaijan President Ilham Alyev and Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said al Said and Nigeria’s new President Muhammad Buhari have accepted the invitation to attend the summit.

Secretary General United Nations Ban Ki-moon will also attend the summit to be held here in Jinnah Convention Centre.

The sources said that President Mamnoon Hussain would inaugurate the summit while Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif would be the chief guest in the concluding session of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to make befitting arrangements for the summit.

An amount of rupees five billion has been allocated to the CDA for the beautification of the federal capital.

The Summit on Science and Technology was approved by the Twelfth Session of the OIC held in Cairo in February 2013. The Summit will be preceded on 9-10 November 2015 by meetings of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee of COMSTECH.

The Summit would review progress in the fields of emerging sciences. COMSTECH has prepared a work plan 2015-16 in consultation with 157 scientists and technologists from twenty Member States and the EU and USA. The recommendations would form part of the Islamabad Declaration.

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