{"id":68209,"date":"2014-06-15T21:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=68209"},"modified":"2014-06-15T21:40:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T21:40:28","slug":"sierra-leone-invited-to-council-of-foreign-ministers-meeting-in-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=68209","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone invited to Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting in Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states will converge in Saudi Arabia\u2019s second largest city, Jeddah on the 18-19th June, 2014.\u00a0 <em>(Photo: Alhaji M B Jalloh, IA, Saudi Arabia)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the second time Saudi Arabia is hosting the OIC\u2019s Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM). The last time it hosted it was in 1989. This is the 41st session of the CFM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone\u2019s Foreign and International Cooperation Minister, Samura Kamara will be represented by Alhaji Mohamed Sillah Kargbo, Sierra Leone\u2019s resident Ambassador in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The high profile diplomats are expected to address pressing issues in the 57 &#8211; member states as well as problems faced by Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a telephone conversation with Maha Akeel, OIC\u2019s Director of Information last night, he said the ministers will also discuss how to tackle the \u2018criminal activities\u2019 of Boko Haram in Nigeria. The OIC Chief, Iyad Madani, the Information Director, visited Nigeria recently to take stock of the situation, and has publicly condemned the group\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It would be recalled that Sierra Leone\u2019s President, Ernest Bai Koroma, last week also promised his country\u2019s readiness to support Nigeria in its quest to end the atrocities being committed by members of the Boko Haram sect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Koroma, according the daily Nigerian Punch newspaper, made the remarks during a recent visit to Nigeria\u2019s President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0\u201cNigeria stood with my country during its difficulties, it\u2019s proper for my country to also identify with Nigeria in its trying times,\u201d the paper quoted Koroma.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Political pundits say, the meeting comes at a critical juncture in the Muslim world; as there is a rising tide of extremism and volatility in Muslim nations and much of these issues, they say, will be reflected in the two-day deliberations.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states will converge in Saudi Arabia\u2019s second largest city, Jeddah on the 18-19th June, 2014.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":23071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751],"tags":[19021,13428],"class_list":["post-68209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","tag-council-of-foreign-ministers","tag-organization-of-islamic-cooperation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}