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Implementation of the Economic Cooperation Section of the OIC-2025

Programme of Action

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The Proposal on the “OIC Business Intelligence Programme”

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Possible Contributions of the OIC Institutions for the Benefit of Palestinian

People / Al-Quds Sharif as well as Geographically Distant OIC Member

Countries and Observer Countries

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Any Other Business

Implementation of the COMCEC Strategy: Contributions of the OIC Institutions

to the COMCEC Strategy

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Emphasizing the significance of the contributions of the OIC Institutions to the

realization of the COMCEC Strategy and the COMCEC Ministerial Policy

Recommendations, the Committee reviewed the completed and planned activities of the

relevant OIC Institutions directly serving to the implementation of the COMCEC

Ministerial Policy Recommendations (Group A activities) and activities serving to the

objectives of COMCEC Strategy (Group B activities)

for the period of December 2019-

October 2020 as well as for the period November 2020-November 2021 based on the

cooperation areas, namely trade, transport and communications, tourism, agriculture,

poverty alleviation and financial cooperation.

(Group A and Group B activities are attached as Annex 1.)

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The Committee was informed by the CCO that in terms of Group A, 70 activities

were reported as completed by the OIC Institutions. In terms of cooperation areas,

approximately 40% of the activities were implemented in financial cooperation and

trade domain followed by tourism. The Committee was also informed that with respect

to types of the activities, the training and technical assistance programs are the

commonly used activity types under Group A with more than 50 percent.

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In terms of Group B activities, CCO representative informed the Committee that

114 activities have been completed since the 35th Session of the COMCEC and 116

activities are planned to be organized in the upcoming period by the respective OIC

Institutions. Most of the completed and planned activities were reported in the area of

trade, followed by poverty alleviation. Furthermore, 14 research reports are planned to

be prepared next year.

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The Committee underlined the importance of contributions of the OIC Institutions

to the implementation of the COMCEC Ministerial Policy Recommendations as well as

realization of the objectives of the COMCEC Strategy. In this respect, the Committee

commended the efforts of SESRIC in contributing to the implementation of the

COMCEC Ministerial Policy Recommendations through specifically designed

activities such as capacity building and training programmes in the six cooperation

areas. The Committee also appreciated the efforts of other OIC institutions for the