Makkah: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has suspended membership of Syria and the organisation’s chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that the move sent “a strong message” to Damascus.
Participants had agreed on “the need to end immediately the acts of violence in Syria and to suspend that country from the OIC”, a statement issued at the end of an OIC summit meeting in the Saudi holy city of Makkah said.
The final statement said there had been “deep concern at the massacres and inhuman acts suffered by the Syrian people.”
According to AFP, Ihsanoglu told a news conference the decision sent “a strong message from the Muslim world to the Syrian regime.
“This world can no longer accept a regime that massacres its people using planes, tanks and heavy artillery.”
It was “also a message to the international community stating that the Muslim world backs a peaceful solution (in Syria), wants an end to the bloodshed and refuses to let the problem degenerate into a religious conflict and spill over into the wider region”, Ihsanoglu said.
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