Istanbul Hosting 21st UIS

Tehran, May 28, IRNA – The 21st Congress of the Union of Islamic Societies opened in Istanbul today in a ceremony attended by the Secretary General the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri. The event attended by foreign ministers, academics, religious scholars and elites from Sweden, Australia, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Tajikistan will seek to review the recent developments in the world and explore grounds for mutual cooperation as well as solutions for the new conditions prevailing in the world. Taskhiri presented an article themed ‘new world order and globalization; shoulds and shouldn’ts’ during the ceremony. Commenting on globalization, he explained the adverse impacts of globalization. Topics for discussion during the event includes major shortages of Islamic world for rearranging new world order, change and development in the Islamic world and transition to the new world based on justice and truth. Problems of unjust current world order, changing prejudgments towards Islam, Islam’s main principles for the management of the entire world community, new order in transition from Imperialism to Islamic civilization are among the topics to be dealt with during the event. The 21st Congress of the Union of Islamic Societies themed ‘Islamic union and a new world’ will end on May 28./end