DHAKA: The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Iyad Ameen Madani, will arrive in Dhaka on a three-day official visit in the third week of August.

During the visit, the OIC Secretary General will hold several meetings with the government high ups, says a foreign ministry source.

However, the schedule is yet to be fixed.

The foreign ministry source also said Iyad Ameen Madani might pay courtesy calls to President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

He also visited Bangladesh last year with the view to deepen and widen the cooperation existing between Bangladesh and OIC.

Madani, a former Minister of Saudi Arabia, assumed office as the 10th Secretary General of OIC on January 1, 2014 after his election in the 12th OIC Summit held in Cairo of Egypt in February 2013.

The OIC is the second largest international organization (after the UN family) that groups together 57 Muslim-majority countries spread over four continents.

It was established through a decision of the Summit in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco on September 25, 1969 in response to an act of criminal arson of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem of Palestine.

The Organization’s main objective is to protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony.

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