The Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Dr. Salim M. AlMalik, explored with Mr. K. M. Khalid, State Minister of Cultural Affairs of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, ways to develop joint cooperation and the programmes and activities that ISESCO may implement for the benefit of Bangladesh in the fields of education, science and culture.

During this meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the 40^th UNESCO General Conference, being held in Paris, ISESCO Director General reviewed the Organization’s new vision and the forthcoming period’s action strategy, which advocate openness to the international organizations working the same fields of action and adopt an implementation methodology of the programmes and activities requested by Member States according to their needs and the importance of the various areas of their action.

In this regard, the Director General requested the Minister to present some of Bangladesh’s suggestions on the programmes and activities of its interest relevant to children, youth, women and communication so that ISESCO can support and implement these programmes.

The Director General further requested to have representatives of Bangladesh at ISESCO as part of the diversity of staff’s nationalities.

On his part, the Minister hailed ISESCO’s new vision, its interest in empowering youth and women, and supporting children to have good education, and its role in protecting heritage in the Muslim world. The Minister also reaffirmed that his country’s cooperation with ISESCO will witness an immense development in coming period.