Islamic Organization for Food Security has been established in Kazakhstan

Almaty. April 28. Silkroadnews – Astana hosted the 7th session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ministerial Conference on food security and agricultural development with the inaugural General Assembly of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS), the press service of the Kazakhstani Ministry of Agriculture reports.
According to KazTAG, Kazakhstan was elected as the chairman of the IOFS general assembly.

According to the IOFS charter, the executive board of the organization consists of eight members, with Kazakhstan being a regular member. During the session Niger, Burkina Faso, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey and Bangladesh were elected as the executive board members. The General Assembly supported the candidacy of the Republic to the post of the IOFS chairman, Ivory Coast and Palestine became the vice-chairman. The organization’s headquarter will be located in Astana.

Yerzhan Zhalmuhanov nominated by Kazakhstan has become the Director General of the IOFS Secretariat.
The new organization will solve the problems of providing the population of Islamic countries with more affordable food, based on their climatic conditions and geographical location, creating the most favorable transport and logistics routes, minimizing the cost of food supplies in the Member States of the OIC, food price stabilization due to the formation and management of shared food fund.

The initiative was first proposed by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev in 2011 at the 38th session of the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the OIC in Astana. Two years later, at the intergovernmental expert meeting the experts of 30 OIC member-states agreed on a draft charter document.