RESOLUTION ADOPTED AT THE THIRD ISLAMIC SUMMIT

CONFERENCE ESTABLISHING THE STANDING COMMITTEES

OF THE OIC CHAIRED BY HEADS OF STATE

Resolution No. 13/3-P (IS)

The Third Islamic Summit Conférence (Palestine and Al-Quds Session), meeting

in Mecca Al-Mukarramah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from 19th to 22nd Rabi-Al-Awal,

1401 H. (25-28 January, 1981);

Having

listened to the proposais by His Majesty King HASSAN II, Chairman of Al-

Quds Committee, that three committees will be established and chaired by the Kings

and Présidents of the Islamic States,

Proceeding

from a firm belief that joint Islamic action needs to be Consolidated in the

scientific and technological field, and in the economic and trade sphere,

Prompted by the desire

to give information and culture a fresh impetus to help world

public opinion understand the basic issues of the Islamic nations, particularly those of

Al- Quds and Palestine, and to confront the tendentious campaign launched against

Islam and Muslims,

DECIDES:

1. To establish three Standing Committees, the first for scientific and technological

coopération, the second for economic and trade coopération, and the third for

information and cultural affairs;

2. These Committees shall undertake to follow up implementation of the resolutions

passed, or about to be passed, by the Islamic Conférence in those fields; to study ail

possible means of strengthening coopération among Muslim States in those fields, and

to draw up programmes and submit proposais designed to increase the Islamic States'

capacity in those fields;