the Palestinian Cause: Based on the principles and goals of the charter of the Organization of Islamic Conference, the conference underlines the resolutions issued by the previous sessions of the Islamic Conference of Information Ministers on the issue of Alqus Alshareef, Palestine and occupied Arab territories including the Syrian Golan and the Lebanese Shebaa Farms. It takes into consideration the need for supporting the agencies of the Palestinian Authority in the field of media and communication, especially after Israel's bombing of the media installations and buildings and destroying their equipment. The conference calls on member countries to provide help to the Palestinian Authority to support and develop its television and radio agency and exchange programs and expertise with it. It chages the general secretariat of the OIC with holding media seminars on Alquds Alshareef and Palestine. It calls on the media in the member countries to intensify the production and exchange of media programs in cooperation with Palestinian media. It also asks member countries to help in establishing a permenant site for Alquds on the internet in coordination with the OIC general secretariat. D- Iraq: The conference called on media men in the member countries to stand by Iraq to unify its ranks, help it in overcoming its calamity and keep contacts with it to realize its untiy and sovereignity on its land and resources. It also calls on them to aviod inciting rift and avoid promoting division directly or indirectly. E- Sudan: The conference solidly stands by Sudan in the face of the antagonistic media campaigns regarding the Sudanese government's position aiming at maintaining and protecting Sudan's unity and sovereignity and rejection of foreign interference in its affairs. F- the Digital Divide: To eleminate the digital divide, the conference recommeded that the member countries, institutions and organizations, institutions specialized in media and communication technologies and the private sector to financially contribute to the Digital Solidarity Fund which was launched on 14 March 2005 by initiative of President Abdulai Wad, President of Senegal and chairman of the standing committee of information and cultural affairs of the OIC. G- Regularity of Dates of Information Ministers Conferences Convening: The conference recommended the periodic convening of the meetings of the ministers of information regularly every two years in the first or second week of September. The chairman of the session can call for an extraordinary meeting if needed. The conference recommended that the sessions of the meetings of the ministers of information be public except when the chairman of the session decides otherwise. The conference recommended that speeches by heads of delegations be confined to the direct media field or to the items on the agenda. It also recommended that speeches of public nature be handed to participants and the general secretariat in time for preparation and translation. --More
