OIC holds an emergency meeting of the Executive Committee at the level of foreign ministers to discuss the developments of the tragic situation in Aleppo at the request of Kuwait on 22 December 2016

At the request of Kuwait the Executive Committee will hold an emergency meeting at the level of foreign ministers on Thursday, December 22sd , 2016, to discuss the situation in Syria in the light the developments of the tragic situation in the city of Aleppo .

This meeting falls within the framework of the ongoing Islamic Cooperation Organization 's efforts since the outbreak of the Syrian crisis six years ago; efforts that aim to stop the killings and the genocide to which the regime of Damascus has exposed the Syrian people, "and to find a political settlement to the conflict in Syria on the basis of (Geneva Declaration 1) and the political process under the auspices of the United Nations in order to implement the process of a political transition led sovereignly by the Syrians , likely to build a new State of Syria on the basis of a pluralist and civil democratic system based on the principles of the rule of law and respect for Human rights , " in conformity with the final communiqué of the Islamic Summit held in Istanbul on 14 and 15 April, 2016.