(Istanbul) – Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan opened the 28th session of OIC’s COMCEC meeting in Istanbul. UAE delegation to the meeting is being headed by Economy Minister Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri. Speaking to the members at the meeting, Al Mansouri said the UAE was keen to take part in all OIC meetings and activities, given their importance at all economic, commercial, cultural, political and social levels.
He added that the UAE was among leading countries in intra-COMCEC trade. The country’s trade with Islamic countries reached US$ 50.5 billion in 2009, or 11.7 percent of the OIC’s total trade.