OIC suspends Syria

The Organization of the Islamic Conference has suspended Syria: The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has suspended Syria, with OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu saying early Thursday the move sent "a strong message" to Damascus. A statement issued at the end of an OIC summit meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca said participants had ...

By , a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.

The Organization of the Islamic Conference has suspended Syria:

The Organization of the Islamic Conference has suspended Syria:

The 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has suspended Syria, with OIC chief Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu saying early Thursday the move sent "a strong message" to Damascus.

A statement issued at the end of an OIC summit meeting in the Saudi holy city of Mecca said participants had agreed on "the need to end immediately the acts of violence in Syria and to suspend that country from the OIC."

The final statement said there had been "deep concern at the massacres and inhuman acts suffered by the Syrian people."

David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist

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