The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon received today the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu at the Organization's Headquarters in Jeddah. This is for the first time in the history of the OIC that a UN Secretary General visited its Headquarters. The visit came as a result of the ever strengthening cooperation between the OIC and the UN since Secretaries General Ihsanoglu and Ban Ki-Moon took their respective offices, according to a press release of OIC. Leading their individual high level delegations, Secretaries General of the OIC and UN discussed issues of mutual concern ranging from political to socio-economic and humanitarian domains. OIC-UN bilateral cooperation at the level of General Secretariat as well as between the OIC institutions and UN agencies, ongoing and future OIC-UN joint programs and activities including cooperation in the field of mediation and humanitarian assistance, Palestine-Israel peace process, security and humanitarian situation in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Sahel region were also raised and discussed during the meeting. --MORE
