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Countries (SMIIC);

Expressing its appreciation to the Member Countries for hosting Ministerial

Conferences, Meetings, workshops, fairs and other activities in the cooperation areas;

Commending the efforts made by the OIC General Secretariat, the COMCEC

Coordination Office and the OIC institutions working in the area of economic and

commercial cooperation, namely SESRIC, ICDT, IDB Group, ICD, ITFC, ICIEC,

ICCIA, OISA, SMIIC, and IOFS.

Report on the COMCEC Strategy and Its Implementation (Agenda Item: 2)

Welcomes

the Progress Report submitted by the COMCEC Coordination Office

highlighting the progress achieved in the implementation of the Strategy;

commends

the Member Countries and the OIC Institutions for their valuable contributions to its

implementation and

requests

the Member States and the OIC Institutions to further

their full support to the implementation of the Strategy.

Requests

the COMCEC Coordination Office to regularly report the progress in

the implementation of the COMCEC Strategy to the COMCEC Sessions, the Follow-

up Committee Meetings and other relevant OIC fora.

Welcomes

the successful convening of the COMCEC Working Groups in the

cooperation areas in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the 35

Session of the

COMCEC and

also welcomes

the research studies and sectoral outlooks conducted and

prepared by the COMCEC Coordination Office specifically for enriching the

discussions in each COMCEC Working Group Meeting.

Commends

the efforts of the Working Groups towards approximating policies

among the Member States in their fields of competence and

welcomes

the policy

recommendations made by the Working Groups in their meetings held in July-

September 2020 period.

Calls upon

the relevant Member States to utilize COMCEC Policy Follow-up

System, which has been established by the COMCEC Coordination Office for the

effective follow-up of the implementation of the COMCEC Ministerial Policy

Recommendations.

Commending

the efforts of the Member States and the OIC Institutions for the

realization of COMCEC Ministerial Policy Recommendations,

invites

all the Member

States to exert every effort, to the extent possible, to implement the Policy

Recommendations and

requests

the OIC Institutions to support the Member States to

this end through capacity development and training programmes for implementation of

policy recommendations.

Also commends

the OIC Institutions’ efforts in helping the member countries in

their efforts towards mitigating the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, among