OIC Urges Negotiated Solution to Syrian Crisis

Fars NA – (Feb 8, 2013) The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) underlined the necessity for dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition to find a solution to the current crisis in the Muslim country.

 In the final statement issued at the end of the 12th OIC Summit, the OIC called for dialogue between the Syrian government and opposition to resolve the ongoing spiraling crisis in the Arab country.
The 57-nation Muslim bloc called for a solution “that would preserve the rights of the Syrian people and ensure the unity and the safety of their land.”
Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.
Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.
The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.
Meantime, Iran’s permanent envoy to the OIC said that the condemnation of the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists is among key paragraphs in the final statement of the international body’s 12th summit.
“The paragraph was approved after it was proposed by the Islamic Republic,” said Hamid Reza Dehqani on the sidelines of the 12th summit of the OIC in the Egyptian capital city, Cairo, on Thursday.
He added that the OIC statement has 170 paragraphs in which the condemnation of Israel’s attack on Syria, the need for access of the member states of the Non-Proliferation Treaty to peaceful nuclear energy, the need for putting an end to the ordeal of Muslims in Myanmar, condemnation of Israel crimes in al-Quds and the ongoing crisis in Mali are among the highlights of the statement.