THE KAZAKH UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND WORLD LANGUAGES

THE KAZAKH UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND WORLD LANGUAGES NAMED AFTER ABYLAI KHAN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS REGIONAL STUDIES Project work Theme: The ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION Done by: 309 group Checked by: Eshmakhanova A. B. Almaty-2015

PLAN Introduction Main part 1) History 2) Policy 3) Main goals 4) Structure 5) Member states 6) Main treatments 7) International influences Conclusion

INTRODUCTION Organization of Islamic Cooperation - an international organization of Islamic countries. Membership: 57 Member States Headquarters: Saudi Arabia Jeddah Type of organization: international organization Official languages: English, Arabic, French Base: September 25 th, 1969

HISTORY Since the 19 th century, some Muslims had aspired to ummah to serve their common political, economic, and social interests. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate after World War I left a vacuum for a pan-Islamic institution. Losing the Six-Day War in 1967 provided the incentive needed. Leaders of Muslim nations met in Rabat to establish the OIC on 25 September 1969.

POLICY The events of September 2001 in New York and Washington and the subsequent "anti-terrorist campaign" put the Muslim world with its established coordinates of interstate relations in the face of testing, embody all the more strengthens the Israeli pressure on the Palestinian issue, the possibility of US military action against Afghanistan, and later - Iraq. In October 2001, in Doha, the IX Extraordinary Meeting of Foreign Ministers of the OIC. Its agenda contained one question - "the consequences of the events in the United States and their impact on the world. " The meeting condemned the "barbaric acts of terrorism", stressing that the actions of those who carry them out (in their relation was demanded "persecution, trial and punishment"), are incompatible with the "teachings of the monotheistic religions and norms of human morality. " In April 2002, at the 10 th extraordinary meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the OIC in the Malaysian capital was adopted Kuala Lumpur Declaration "On international terrorism, " proclaim "unequivocal condemnation of terrorism as a threat to peace, international security and human rights. "

MAIN GOALS The OIC aims to preserve Islamic social and economic values; promote solidarity amongst member states; increase cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas; uphold international peace and security; and advance education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.

MEMBER STATES Africa • Algeria • Benin • Burkina Faso • Cameroon • Comoros • Chad • Djibouti • Egypt • Gabon • Gambia • Guinea-Bissau • Guinea • Ivory Coast • Libya • Mali • Mauritania • Morocco • Mozambique • Nigeria • Senegal • Sierra Leone • Somalia • Sudan • Togo • Tunisia • Uganda Asia • Afghanistan • Azerbaijan • Bahrain • Bangladesh • Brunei • Indonesia • Iran • Iraq • Jordan • Kazakhstan • Kuwait • Kyrgyzstan • Lebanon • Malaysia • Maldives • Oman • Pakistan • Palestine • Qatar • Saudi Arabia • Syria • Tajikistan • Turkey • Turkmenistan • United Arab Emirates • Uzbekistan • Yemen

THE OIC SYSTEM CONSISTS OF: Islamic summit The largest meeting, attended by the kings and the heads of state and government of the member states, convenes every three years. The Islamic Summit takes policy decisions and provide guidance on all issues pertaining to the realisation of the objectives as provided for in the Charter and consider other issues of concern to the Member States and the Ummah. Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers It meets once a year to examine a progress report on the implementation of its decisions taken within the framework of the policy defined by the Islamic Summit. Secretary General The Secretary General is elected by the Council of Foreign Ministers for a period of five years, renewable once. The Secretary-General is elected from among nationals of the Member States in accordance with the principles of equitable geographical distribution, rotation and equal opportunity for all Member States with due consideration to competence, integrity and experience. Permanent Secretariat It is the executive organ of the Organisation, entrusted with the implementation of the decisions of the two preceding bodies, and is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The current secretary general of this international organisation is Iyad Bin Amin Madani from Mecca, Saudi Arabia, since 31 January 2014. In order to coordinate and boost its action, align its view points and stands, and be credited with concrete results in various fields of cooperation -political, economic, cultural, social, spiritual and scientific- among Member States, the Organization has created different committees, nearly all, at ministerial level, a number of which are chaired by Heads of State. The Al-Quds Committee, the Standing Committee for Information and Cultural Affairs (COMIAC), the Standing Committee for Economic and Trade Cooperation (COMCEC), and the Standing Committee for Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) are the ones Chaired by Heads of State

KAZAKHSTAN’S CHAIRMANSHIP IN THE ORGANISATION OF ISLAMIC COOPERATION Kazakhstan became a full-fledged member of the Organization in 1995. On June 28 -30, 2011, Astana hosted the 38 th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Thus, Kazakhstan took over the chairmanship of respected international organisation. The meeting became a historic milestone as it was decided to rename the Organization of the Islamic Conference into the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. In addition, a Special Commission on Human Rights was established and the OIC Plan of Action for Cooperation with Central Asia was adopted for the first time in the history of the organisation.

MAIN TREATMENTS The Cairo Declaration of Human Rights in Islam (CDHRI) is a declaration of the member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, which provides an overview on the Islamic perspective on human rights, and affirms Islamic Shari'ah as its sole source. CDHRI declares its purpose to be "general guidance for Member States [of the OIC] in the Field of human rights". This declaration is usually seen as an Islamic counterpart of and a response to the post-World War II United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) of 1948.

INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES Modern Muslim states play an important role in the world economy, politics and culture. These three dimensions are intertwined with each other. For example, the supply of these countries energy resources to the world market to a large extent determines the political processes and events that are global in nature. But the policy is closely connected with the culture. It is a cultural, political, or civilizational dimension is essentially a conflict between Islam and the West is increasingly becoming the object of theoretical design of a modern system of international relations. Consider some of the manifestations of this relationship.

CONCLUSION The Islamic organization - is, above all, a huge Islamic world, comprising more than 1. 3 billion. Muslims. Followers of Islam make up the majority of the population in more than 40 countries. In a number of countries they are a significant and influential minority. Islam spread almost all over the world. However, its place of origin and habitat of the Arab-Muslim, Turkic-Muslim and Iranian-Islamic statehood and culture is the Muslim East. It is the center of business and political life of the Islamic world. Here are its main international organizations. It's clear that more than one billion population professing one of the world's religions, adhere to certain spiritual and cultural values, finally, a certain way of social life can not be an important factor in world politics.