OIC Secretary General to attend Obama`s speech in Cairo

Jeddah, June 03, SPA -- The Secretary General of the Organization of
the Islamic Conference (OIC), Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, is
leaving later today for Cairo, following an invitation by the
Egyptian government to attend the speech to be addressed at Cairo
University by US President Barack Obama to the Muslim world.

It is worth recalling that the Secretary General called in an open
letter he addressed to President Obama in the wake of his
inauguration as President of the United States for the need to forge
a new partnership between the US and the Muslim world.

He also stressed the commitment of the OIC to cooperate in order to
boost constructive dialogue, according to a press release of the OIC
issued here yesterday.

--SPA