1- Our solidarity aims at mustering the energies of our Ummah, sensitizing it and pooling its resources to defend its very existence, its prestige and its future, while holding fast to its faith and cultural specificity. We thus stand united in the face of onslaughts against the Islamic religion and Muslim peoples, resisting the occupation of the Ummah's territories and attacks that target its resources, refusing aggression and threats of aggression, and reaffirming the right of every people to self-determination, particularly the people of Palestine and Jammu and Kashmir, in accordance with the relevant United Nations resolutions.

2- Islamic States reaffirm their solidarity with the Palestinian people, determined as they are to protect them and uphold the institution of all their legitimate national rights and the establishment of their independent state covering their entire territories occupied since June 05, 1967, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital. We, hereby, reiterate our commitment to continued material and moral support of the struggle of the Palestinian people and their National Authority in the face of relentless Israeli aggression. We urge the international community and the United Nations to bring pressure to bear on Israel and on its supporters to secure its immediate and full withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories in Palestine, the Syrian Golan and the remaining Lebanese territories, and see to it that it fully comply with all U.N. Security Council resolutions, including a just settlement of the refugee issue. We condemn the Israeli threats against Syria and Lebanon, reaffirm the adoption, by Muslim States of the Arab Peace Initiative emanating from the Beirut Arab Summit and insist on the integral implementation of all its clauses.

3- We welcome the affirmation, by Iraq, that it respects the independence and sovereignty of the State of Kuwait, guarantee its security as well as its safety and territorial integrity, and take action towards resolving the issue of the Prisoners of War (POWs), detainees, and missing persons. We, likewise, welcome Iraq's expressed willingness to restore property through United Nations mechanisms and the cooperation of the League of Arab States. We, hereby, as well assert our determination to preserve safety, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iraq and keenness that the embargo against it be lifted. In the meantime, we stress our absolute rejection of the recent threat of aggression against Iraq as a menace to the national security of all Islamic countries.

4- Islamic States reaffirm the resolutions of successive Islamic Conferences on solidarity with the Great Libyan People's Democratic and Socialist Jamahiriya and calls upon the Security Council to lift the sanctions imposed on Libya completely, immediately and definitively on the grounds that it has honored its obligations under the resolutions of the Council.

5- We emphasized our full solidarity with the Afghan and Somali peoples, our commitment to the provision of material and moral support to them, and our effective contribution to the resettlement and reconstruction projects and those designed to restore peace, security and stability throughout the country.

6- We also reaffirm our determination to show continued solidarity among the Member States through the development of all economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and social fields, by enshrining these principles in the OIC covenants, and devising innovative strategic projects of a nature as to help us preserve our spiritual values, consolidate our identity and safeguard our political independence, while developing our economic interests through collective self-reliance so as to achieve complementarity among Islamic countries and expand the base of intra-OIC trade by establishing a Customs Union and free-trade zones between the Islamic countries to guarantee the free flow of Islamic capital as a prelude to the creation of an Islamic Common Market. Emphasis should be laid on the mobilization of the full resources of the Ummah to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development in a way that allows us to optimize the use of our huge capabilities and resources with a view to bringing about just and equitable prosperity to all the inhabitants of the Ummah starting with the poor among them. This drive should be based on promoting intra-OIC investments and joint ventures. Islamic financial institutions are called upon to encourage and support such investments and projects. The private sector should assume an ever growing role in sustainable development at a rapid pace. In these efforts, a special priority should be given to energy, electrical power network, and basic infrastructure projects.

7- We, the OIC Member States, are called upon to energetically endeavor to transcend our differences, while holding fast to the values of solidarity, cooperation and mutual support; and pursuing good offices to resolve disputes between among us and with the others. In the same vein, we should avoid such differences by resorting to gentle counsel and peaceful means for stability to prevail across our Islamic world; thus paving the ground for laying the foundations of such a prosperity as would benefit all our peoples in solidarity and interdependence. Furthermore, we should activate the Committee for Islamic Solidarity to energize the performance of the Islamic Solidarity Fund (ISF) and its Waqf; and broaden the scope of its activities to enable it to achieve its objectives and fulfill its functions in extending economic support and assistance to the Member States and Muslim communities.

8- In the same token, we reaffirm our commitment to give culture and cultural cooperation among Member States an advanced priority in our joint action. We also renew our pledge to strengthen and develop our Organization to make it possible for it to achieve its prescribed objectives in the fields of culture, education, Science, as well as technological and scientific research that pave the way for a revitalization of the life of Muslim society so as to open up to similar institutions that exist in our states and the world around us.

9- Because we are aware of the importance of the initiative to redress the true image of Islam from its present uncalled for distortion on the part of those who prone deception and confrontation, we shall rely upon Information cooperation among our countries to present a united vision and speak like one man, thus enhancing the capabilities and influence of our religion on the basis of a common Information Strategy made to benefit technological advance and scope with the velocity and rapid pace of progress in the domains of Information and Communication.

10- The OIC should continue to vest utmost interest in the situation of the Islamic presence and Muslim societies and communities outside the Islamic world, take cognizance of their condition and the unfair treatment to which they get exposed, work with them in overcoming such situations, defend them along with their interests, help keep their links with their countries of origin and the societies to which they belonged initially. The OIC should also endeavor to assist them in making use of their energies, capabilities and relations within their host societies so that they may contribute onto the true image of Islam and its civilization, for these communities are best suited to deal with the societies of which they are member or to which they belong as well as their inner ways.

We reiterate our abidance by the principles and values laid down by Islam insofar as our relations with others are concerned, in terms of dialogue, dealings, cooperation and collective endeavors to achieve common and mutual benefits. On this basis, we affirm and adhere in relating to other people through dialogue and cooperation, we affirm our adherence to the following in the area of dialogue, interaction and cooperation with the others:

1- Tolerant and effective give and take on the international scene. The Islamic States adhere to the principle of dialogue as a basis for international relations. They shall endeavor to consolidate the mechanisms of dialogue and mutual understanding among existing creeds, civilizations and cultures. They are committed to accepting others and positively coexisting with them.

2- Commitment to OIC Code of Ethics contained in the Organization's Convention against Terrorism. We also reaffirm our total rejection of the attempts to associate Islam and Muslims with terrorism. Islam is a religion of righteousness and peace, love and tolerance. In the same token, we reaffirm our rejection of deliberate confusion between terrorism and legitimate national resistance against foreign occupation, colonization and domination.

3- We stress the importance of fighting international terrorism on a clear basis that can enlist consensus. This requires convening an international conference within the framework of the United Nations to reach a clear definition of terrorism, draw a distinction between it and peoples' right to resist alien occupation and determine their own future, and agree on the international measures and mechanisms to be used against terrorism through the world body.

4- Raise high the banner of the rights of the human being on whom God has bestowed the full range of these rights, be they political, civil, economic or social, including the right to development. We are committed to working together in cooperation with the international community to promote these rights.

5- Cooperation and active contribution in dealing with the issues that preoccupy our contemporary world, so as to focus our energy and that of the international community on such matters as the eradication of poverty, providing more opportunities for productive and cost-effective labor, reaching social integration, and devoting special care to the Environment, water scarcity, drought, desertification, the struggle against endemic and infectious diseases and the scourge of disabilities.

6- To find a radical solution to the burden of external debts which impedes development efforts, particularly in developing countries and the most underprivileged among them. We believe it would be most appropriate to write-off those debts for the least developed countries (LDCs). We look forward to achieving this end within the purview of an objective dialogue and constructive cooperation with donor countries and international financial institutions.

7- We underscore our solidarity with the African continent to solve its problems and we welcome the establishment of the African Union (AU) that will help launch genuine unity among the States of the continent. While we look forward to cooperating with the Union within the context of respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its states, we welcome the initiative of the "New Africa -- NEPAD Development Partnership" which we view as a combination of efforts at the service our beloved continent, a nucleus of improvement for its state of affairs, and a pioneering project for our nascent African Union. This will have a positive impact on the future of Islamic joint action and broaden its perspectives. We, hereby, express our readiness to adopt a partnership strategy for the benefit of the African continent and urge Islamic States as well as Arab and other Islamic financial institutions to bring in their genuine contribution to the achievement of positive partnership.

1) We underline the interest vested by our governments in the institutions of civil society in our States and endeavour to protect, support, increase and diversify them to enable them to serve their direct environment, extend their activities to all parts of the Islamic World and to the Muslim Communities abroad, and embark on a positive cooperation process with their counterparts at the level of the Islamic world. Thus would they be able to be operative in their Muslim society and their message and function be universal. This would be facilitated by the establishment of a Council in charge of coordinating among the Islamic organizations and urging them to adhere to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

2) We call upon the civil society institutions in Member States to play their role and work jointly with the governmental bodies to achieve the lofty national ideals and strategic objectives of Muslim States and people, along programs and projects to be agreed through dialogue and consultation among those institutions and between them and governmental bodies, and to devise the appropriate mechanisms for close coordination and cooperation.

3) We pledge to set action plans in order to foster the institutions of civil society in our States, harness their potentialities and capabilities to enhance their role in the achievement of the solidarity among Muslim people worldwide and their countries and give further impetus to dialogue, coexistence and cooperation with other peoples.