MOSCOW — Moscow will host the first ever
high-profile conference that seeks deepening
strategic ties between Russia and its
sizable Muslim community with the Muslim
world.
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The Conference is the
largest event held by the Islamic
society of Russia in the new
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"It gives a new drive to Arab and Islamic
relations with Russia, following remarkable
improvements already achieved over the past
few years," Ahmed Sakhratullah, one of the
organizers, told IslamOnline.net.
Titled "Russia and the Islamic world:
Partnership for the Sake of Stability", the
conference will be held from September 24-26
at the Pillar Hall of Unions in the Russian
capital.
It
is sponsored by Russia Mufties Council, the
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)
and Russia’s Foreign Ministry.
The gathering, to be launched by a speech
from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, will
have high profile attendance representing
Russia and Islamic countries.
Organizers affirm that the conference, which
comes as part of celebrating five years on
Russia's joining to the OIC as observer,
would mark a breakthrough for the
flourishing ties between Russia and the
Muslim world.
It
will discuss enhancing of international
cooperation between Russia and the Muslim
countries as well as the Muslim communities
of Europe and America
Other key issues to be tackled include
Russian-Muslim partnership in the fields of
Islamic finance, science, culture and
education.
Russian
Muslims
Organizers say that the international
conference would also highlight the evolving
role of Muslims in the Russian Federation.
"Russia Mufties Council, which sponsors the
conference, wants to assert Russian
Muslims’s role in establishing closer ties
with the Islamic world," asserts
Sakhratullah
The conference will be the largest event
held by the Muslim society of Russia in the
new millennium.
Part of the conference will focus on the
role of Russia’s Muslim groups and
organizations in developing and
strengthening the ties with co-believers
from other countries.
Other than the Mufties Council, official
partners of the gathering include the
Islamic Cultural Centre of Russia and the
Russian Fund for Support of Islamic culture,
science and education.
The Russian Federation is home to some 23
million Muslims in the north of the Caucasus
and southern republics of Chechnya,
Ingushetia and Dagestan.
Islam is Russia's second-largest religion
representing roughly 15 percent of its 145
million predominantly Orthodox population.
Source:
http://www.islamonline.net
