Workings of the 38th Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers' of member states of the formerly known Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) began here today, in the presence of Kazakh President Noor Sultan Nazarbayev and the Secretary General of the Islamic organization Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu. The opening session witnessed the unanimous approval of the member states to change, both, the motto and name of the Organization of Islamic Conference to the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in order to reflect the qualitative transformation in the performance of the Organization in addition to promote its impact as an international community involved in all political, economic, cultural and social tasks. Addressing the session, the President compared OIC to the United Nations Organization (UN), calling it the UN of the Islamic world. -- SPA
