In a press conference on September 18 at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah, the Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that the efforts made by the Organisation over the past few days have enabled the General Secretariat to accord the issue of the ‘indecent’ film the highest priority on the agenda of the Annual Meeting of OIC’s Foreign Ministers next week. The meeting will discuss all initiatives with a view to reaching a plan of action and specific mechanisms to address the rising tide of incitement against Muslims.
The Secretary General explained that he had sustained high-level contacts in order to secure a unified international response, and pointed out that he addressed a letter to the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He also contacted Dr. Nabil Elaraby, Secretary General of the Arab League, and Catherine Ashton, the EU Foreign Policy Chief to explore ways and means of putting an end to a recurrence of such acts of incitement and the ensuing cycles of violence.