India at OIC

Fifty years after being disinvited from the 1969 Conference of Islamic Countries in Rabat in Morocco at Pakistan’s behest, India made its maiden appearance at the foreign ministers’ meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on March 1 as a “guest of honour”.

External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj attended the foreign ministers’ meeting held in Abu Dhabi, on March 1-2, at the invitation of the UAE’s Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

Significance

  • First since 1969: This is the first time India has been invited to the OIC after 1969, when then Industrial development minister Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed ....
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