The Agenda
POLITICAL and ECONOMIC
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
(17 February 2009)
Niamey
Chaired by Morocco's MP H.E. Ahmed Haji
AGENDA
of the
STANDING SPECIALIZED COMMITTEE
on
POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
NIAMEY, REPUBLIC OF NIGER
17 FEBRUARY, 2009
VENUE: Hall No.5 of the Palais des Congres de Niamey
09.00 to 13.00
1. Election of the Rapporteur.
2. Al-Quds Al-Sharif, Palestine and other occupied territories of Syria and Lebanon.
2.1. Protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque against all threats.
3. A unified position of OIC Member Parliaments in support of Palestine against aggression and war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza Strip.
3.1 Committing Israel to apply the Fourth Geneva Convention on the occupied territories and treating the Palestinian political captives and detainees in its prisons in accordance with the International Humanitarian Law.
4. Making the whole Middle East region a zone free of all weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons.
5. Situation in Iraq and restoration by the Iraqi people of their political and economic sovereignty and the reconstruction of independent Iraq.
6. Combating terrorism under the umbrella of the UN and reconfirming the legitimate right to resist occupation and foreign aggression by all individual and collective means according to Article 51 of the UN Charter and further documents and measures of liquidation of colonialism and racism.
7. Supporting efforts to create sustainable dialogue between Islamic and Western parliaments.
8. Necessity of developing solidarity and unity among Islamic countries in the face of mounting challenges, which target the capabilities of the Islamic Ummah.
9. Adverse consequences of Western double-standard policy towards the Islamic World.
10. Supporting the equal and inalienable rights of all nations to have free access to and usage of modern nuclear technology for their peaceful exploitation.
11. Problem of Somalia security from inside and foreign intervention.
12. Situation in Darfur.
13. To Stand by the Sudan against all international threats and to affirm its sovereignty and legitimate leadership. (Proposed by the Syrian Arab Republic.)
14. Recent situation of the Muslims in Cyprus.
15. Recent development in Jammu and Kashmir.
16. Armenia occupation on Nagorno-Karabakh region.
17. Rejection of all economic sanctions – whether unilateral or multi-lateral -imposed on any independent country particularly PUIC States.
18. Condemnation of all forms of blockade imposed by the USA and its allies against independent States, particularly PUIC States. (Proposed by the Syrian Arab Republic)
19. The necessity of prior consultation and coordination between Islamic parliaments on the sidelines of international meetings
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
20. Warning against the danger of the international financial crisis and its impact of globalization upon the economies of developing countries and in particularly on Islamic Countries.
21. Allocation of voluntary financial contribution to the PUIC from Member Parliaments to provide urgent assistance to the people in Gaza Strip as well as to finance activities of interdependence (Takaful) solidarity among Islamic States during the times of all type of disaster.
22. Examining the feasibility of establishing an “Islamic Monetary Fund”. (Proposed by Indonesia).
23. Encouraging and enhancing bilateral and multilateral trade among Islamic States.