A festive event dedicated to the 33rd anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan was organized for 240 pilgrims at the “Marmara” hotel in the city of Mecca.
The event was attended by Sirojiddin Shamsuddinov, Consul General in Jeddah, Shukhrat Amoniy, Attaché for Hajj and Umrah, as well as representatives of the Working Group from the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan and the Committee on Religious Affairs.
Muslim Board of Uzbekistan
Press Service
At an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held yesterday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, former Mauritanian Foreign Minister Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed was elected as the organisation’s new Secretary-General, reports Dunyo IA correspondent.
According to the Turkish news agency “Anadolu”, 66-year-old Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed will succeed Chadian diplomat Hussein Ibrahim Taha, who served as OIC Secretary-General from 2021 to 2026.
The newly elected Secretary-General served as the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Yemen from 2015 to 2018.