8th weekly Meeting of Departments' Directors

8th weekly Meeting of Departments’ Directors

6 December، 2020

His Excellency Prof. Koutoub Sano opened on Monday 15 Rabi` al-Akhir 1442 corresponding to 30 November 2020, the eighth weekly meeting of the directors of the Academy’s departments, held by videoconferencing.

After welcoming the participants, His Excellency spoke of the great success of the Conference of Foreign Ministers of the OIC Member states in Niger on Friday and Saturday 12-13 of Rabi al-Akhir 1442, corresponding to 27-28 November 2020, by auguring well to the Secretariat-General of the Academy that – with the grace of Allah the Almighty – the amendments to the Statutes of the Academy have all been approved; the most important of which concerns the change of the name of the “Secretariat of the Academy” to ” Secretariat-General of the Academy” and the name “Secretary of the Academy” to “Secretary-General of the Academy”.

His Excellency commended the outstanding efforts of the late H.E. Prof. Abdulsalam al-Abbadi and his team whose results led to this fruitful and blessed effort. His Excellency also congratulated all the personnel of the Academy for the completion of the brochure in the three languages as well as the newsletter which was widely distributed until the English copies ran out.

His Excellency also thanked Mr. Mohamed Silla Al-Bachir, Head of the Warehouse and Library Division, for his remarkable efforts to facilitate the procedures and the successful participation of His Excellency in the Conference of the Foreign Ministers of Muslim Countries.

The meeting reached some decisions, the most important of which are the following:

-To organize the first scientific forum between the Academy and the members of the Shariah Councils in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries on 6/5/1442, corresponding to 21/12/2020.

-To organize a specialized jurisprudential economic symposium on the corona pandemic and present a general concept of it by January 2021.

-To inform the official authorities of the headquarters country and the Member states about the approval of the amended statute of the Academy in its final form.