Bangladesh State Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohammed Shahriar Alam me OIC Secretary General Dr. Yousef binAhman Al-Othaimeen at the OIC Secretariat in Jeddah.

and discussed ways of strengthening intra-OIC trade and economic ties among the Organisation of Islamic Countries.

Shahriar Alam emphasized on increasing food security and resilience within OIC through joint agricultural project collaboration in African OIC member states.

In such projects, Bangladesh could provide its technical know-how and workforce, affluent OIC member states may provide capitals and finance and African countries with reserves of arable land could provide their fertile land area for farming.

This would be mutually benefitting for the OIC member states as proposed by Shahriar. OIC Secretary General Dr.Othaimeen welcomed the proposal and informed he would explore the mechanism under OIC to facilitate such projects.

Dr. Othaimeen congratulated Bangladesh on its 50th anniversary of independence and praised the remarkable sustained economic growth of Bangladesh carried out in the last one decade under the leadership of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, India Blooms said.

He said the recent UN decision to graduate Bangladesh from LDC category to the middle-income country is a significant milestone for Bangladesh. He said Bangladesh’s socio-economic success story and leadership on women's empowerment could be an example for many OIC member states to follow.