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48450
Mon, 03/02/2009 - 14:09
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PRESIDENT OPENS WORLD ISLAMIC ECONOMIC FORUM
Jakarta, March 2 (ANTARA) - President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here on Monday officially opened the 5th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF) which will run until Tuesday (Mar 3).
The theme of the Fifth WIEF is "Food and Energy Resilience, Stemming the Global Financial Economic Crisis."
In his speech on the occasion, the President called on all Muslim countries to cooperate to find way out of the current global economic crisis and to advance the life of Muslims in the world.
With appropriate policies, the crisis could be dealt with and with hard work, the crisis could be changed into an opportunity, he said.
Yudhoyono proposed that rich Muslim countries in possession of great amounts of foreign exchange reserves assist fellow Muslim others by investing in those with agrarian economies.
He said Gulf countries could help improve the welfare of Muslims and solve the current global food shortage problem.
Muslim countries were not only facing the financial crisis, but also the threats of energy, climate change and food crises, he said.
These crises were global, systemic and interrelated and therefore the solutions should also be global and systemic, the Indonesian head of state said.
President Yudhoyono also reminded oil producing countries to develop renewable energy production to replace fossil energy which might run out in the near future.
He called on Muslim countries to take concrete actions to deal with the climate change problem and closely follow the climate change discussions to be held at Copenhagen this year.
The president emphasized the need to conduct the Second Green Revolution to help meet the demand for food and help empower small farmers in developing countries.
Among those present in the WIEF opening ceremony were Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Morocco Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.***
The theme of the Fifth WIEF is "Food and Energy Resilience, Stemming the Global Financial Economic Crisis."
In his speech on the occasion, the President called on all Muslim countries to cooperate to find way out of the current global economic crisis and to advance the life of Muslims in the world.
With appropriate policies, the crisis could be dealt with and with hard work, the crisis could be changed into an opportunity, he said.
Yudhoyono proposed that rich Muslim countries in possession of great amounts of foreign exchange reserves assist fellow Muslim others by investing in those with agrarian economies.
He said Gulf countries could help improve the welfare of Muslims and solve the current global food shortage problem.
Muslim countries were not only facing the financial crisis, but also the threats of energy, climate change and food crises, he said.
These crises were global, systemic and interrelated and therefore the solutions should also be global and systemic, the Indonesian head of state said.
President Yudhoyono also reminded oil producing countries to develop renewable energy production to replace fossil energy which might run out in the near future.
He called on Muslim countries to take concrete actions to deal with the climate change problem and closely follow the climate change discussions to be held at Copenhagen this year.
The president emphasized the need to conduct the Second Green Revolution to help meet the demand for food and help empower small farmers in developing countries.
Among those present in the WIEF opening ceremony were Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (secretary general of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Hamad Al Attiyah, Morocco Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.***
