Activate relationship with the US Government, media and civil society:
The Mission has activated and enhanced its relationship significantly with renowned US-based think tanks, policy and opinion makers, academics, media and mainstream Muslim communities in the US to better project the OIC positions, concerns and interests. The Mission also works to keep the US executive and legislature up-to-date on the OIC's activities and priority action areas.
Further the OIC's excellent relationship with the United Nations:
Thanks in large part to the efforts of the OIC Secretary General, who developed a close personal rapport with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, as was also the case with the former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the relations between the two organizations have gone from strength to strength. This can be evidenced by the increasingly broader and more substantive nature of the OIC-UN cooperation resolutions, with 27 having been adopted by the UNGA since 1975. Partnerships abound on a range of developmental initiatives and the vigor instilled by the OIC Secretary General is maintained through constructive bilateral exchanges at the highest level. Such exchanges include the Biennial General Meeting on Cooperation between the UN and the OIC as well as - on the sidelines of the annual UNGA General Debate - consultations between the Secretary Generals of the two Organizations, bilateral exchanges with the Heads of States and Governments and delegation level talks with the UN's Department of Politial Affairs.
Enhance ties with the OIC Groups in New York and Washington DC:
The OIC Secretary General has, as one of his foremost objectives, aimed at the deepening of solidarity and cooperation amond the Muslim Ummah. To this end, he has engaged directly with the OIC Groups in New York at the UN and in Washington DC to facilitate an Islamic unity and constructive engagements with all the concerned. He has tasked this