Palestine, major point in OIC Summit

Palestinian issue is a major issue on the agenda of the 11th Summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference taking place in Dakar on March 13-14.

"I think that a strong message will be delivered to support the Palestinian people's inalienable right to found its own state, on its own land, with East Jerusalem as capital," the OIC secretary general, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said.

The experts of the 57 OIC member states have been meeting in Meridien hotel in Dakar since Saturday to prepare the two-day heads of state and government conference opening on Thursday.

Since 1975, Senegal has been the chair of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People established by the UN.

It is the second time Senegal is holding this summit. Dakar hosted an OIC summit in 1991.