Palestine very important point on OIC summit agenda

"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 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.

"The decision to hold the summit in Dakar was taken in Putrajaya (Malaysia) in 2003," Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu recalled, adding that `the decision was made in appreciation of Senegal`s leadership in Africa`.

"We cooperate with the Senegalese government, notably with the foreign minister, for this ...