The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will on Wednesday 14 May 2014 embark on a week-long urgent humanitarian mission to help victims of the conflict in the Central African Republic and neighboring states. The General Secretariat, acting on the directives of the OIC Secretary General, Iyad Ameen Madani, will lead an international humanitarian mission to the Central African Republic, the Republic of Cameroon and the Republic of Chad. The aim of the mission is to hold consultations with senior officials of the countries concerned with the crisis to discuss ways of extending urgent humanitarian assistance to the displaced persons and refugees and to obtain first-hand information by visiting displaced persons camps in the Central African Republic and refugees camps in Cameroon and Chad. Amb. Fouad Maznaie, representative of the OIC Humanitarian Affairs Department and the head of the delegation, explained that the delegation will include in addition to the OIC, the Islamic Development Bank, the Islamic Solidarity Fund, the International Islamic Relief Organization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Turkish Red Cross, the Turkish IHH Organization, Turkey's Doctors around the World, Qatar's Charity Foundation, Britain's Islamic Relief, Britain's Islamic Aid, and other international humanitarian organizations. The OIC humanitarian mission is expected to prepare a comprehensive humanitarian intervention programme, pursuant to the resolution of the emergency ministerial Executive Committee meeting held at the OIC General Secretariat, Jeddah on 20 February 2014, which provided for the dispatching of a high-level delegation to the Central African Republic to assess the prevailing situation on the ground, and to show solidarity with the Muslim community who continue to be victims of violence and gross human rights violations.
