OIC Secretary General Iyad Ameen Madani, in a letter to France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, has condemned the terrorist attack against the office of Charlie Hebdo Magazine in Paris on 7 January 2015 which claimed lives of 10 media workers and two police officers according to news reports. In his letter, the Secretary General expressed his solidarity with the Government and People of France in their moment of national grief; and extended his deepest condolences to the families of the victims. He reiterated OIC's unwavering and principled position which condemns terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, reaffirming the need to consolidate regional and international efforts to combat and root out this phenomenon of terrorizing innocent people, threatening social fabrics and creating a gulf between cultures and religions.
