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Working Sessions
21. The working sessions of the Meeting were chaired by H.E. Ambassador
Salih Mutlu ŞEN, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Turkey to the
OIC.
22. The agenda of the Meeting was adopted by the Committee.
(A copy of the Agenda is attached as Annex VI.)
Agenda Item 2: The COMCEC Strategy and its Implementation
23. The Committee welcomed the Report on the Implementation of the
COMCEC Strategy submitted by the COMCEC Coordination Office
highlighting the progress achieved in the implementation of the Strategy, and
commended the Member States and OIC Institutions for their valuable
contributions to the implementation of the COMCEC Strategy. The Committee
also requested the Member States and OIC Institutions to continue lending
their full support to the implementation of the Strategy.
24. The Committee welcomed the successful convening of the COMCEC
Working Groups in the cooperation areas in accordance with the relevant
resolutions of the 32nd Session of the COMCEC and also welcomed the
research studies conducted by the COMCEC Coordination Office specifically
for enriching the discussions in each COMCEC Working Group Meeting.
25. The Committee commended the efforts of the Working Groups towards
approximating policies among the Member States in their fields of competence
and welcomed the policy recommendations made by the Working Groups in
their meetings held in February-April 2017.
26. The Committee invited all the Member Countries to exert efforts, to the
extent possible, to implement the policy recommendations and urged relevant
OIC Institutions to support the Member States in this regard.
27. The Committee welcomed the finalization of the nine projects funded
under the COMCEC Project Funding in 2016 and also welcomed the launching
of fifteen new projects to be implemented in 2017.
28. The Committee invited the Member Countries to utilize the COMCEC
Project Funding to implement the policy recommendations developed in the
COMCEC Working Groups and adopted by the COMCEC Ministerial
Sessions.