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July 2016

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I.S.S.F-AISGOC

2nd Coordination Meeting

The 2nd Coordination Meeting between the I.S.S.F General Secretariat and the Azerbaijan

Islamic Solidarity Games Operations Committee (AISGOC) was held during the period

of July 28th – 29th, 2016 in Baku, Azerbaijan, in

the presence of:

- Mr. Saeed Abdul Ghaffar Hussein, I.S.S.F

Assistant Secretary-General and Chairman

of the Marketing Commission;

- Mr. Khalid Abdullah Abdulaziz Bin

Alshaykh, I.S.S.F Director General;

- Mr. Ashraf Sayed Abdel Latif, Head of

I.S.S.F Technical Affairs, and

- Mr. Eric Gottschalk, member of the

Marketing Commission.

In this Issue:

The 2nd I.S.S.F-AISGOC Coordination

Meeting .............................................. 1

AISGOC Ceremony for the Islamic

NOCs in Rio Olympics ..................... 2

I.S.S.F participation in the 29th

ICECS ................................................. 3

I.S.S.F General Secretariat meets with

IDB officials ....................................... 4

I.S.S.F Member NOCs ....................... 5

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At the 2nd Coordination Meeting, the following 4th Games-related matters were

discussed:

- AISGOC Marketing Commission plan.

- I.S.S.F General Secretariat plan for the Games marketing.

- Sports listed in Games final program.

- Date of sending the Initial Entry Form to the member NOCs.

- Games Participation Fees for the member NOCs.

- Number of teams participating in team sports and qualification standards for

individual sports.

- AISGOC advertising plan for the Games inside and outside Azerbaijan.

They also has met with His Excellency Mr. Azad Rahimov, Minister of Youth and Sport

of Azerbaijan, who confirmed that the AISGOC is exerting great efforts to organize

this Games and also expressed his strong desire that all Islamic countries participate is

this Games.

AISGOC Ceremony for the Islamic NOCs in Rio Olympics

On August 7th, 2016, the Azerbaijan Islamic Solidarity Games Operations Committee

(AISGOC) invited the Islamic Olympic Committees and sport officials in the Muslim world to

attend a ceremony of the 2017 4th Islamic Solidarity Games in the city of Rio de Janeiro during

the occasion of the Rio 2016 Olympics, in the presence of Col. Hamad Kalkaba Malboum,

I.S.S.F 1st Vice President on behalf of the His Royal Highness Prince Abdullah Bin Mosaad

Bin Abdulaziz, I.S.S.F President.

His Excellency Mr. Azad Rahimov, Minister of Youth and Sport of Azerbaijan welcomed the

NOCs delegates. In this ceremony, they made an audio visual presentation on the preparations

of the AISGOC for organizing and hosting the Games.

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I.S.S.F participation in the 29th ICECS

Jeddah - Saudi Arabia

July 23rd – 25th, 2016

Based on the invitation sent by the General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic

Cooperation (OIC) to the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (I.S.S.F) to attend the

meetings of the thirty-ninth session of the Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural,

and Social Affairs (ICECS), held in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on July 23rd –

25th, 2016, Mr. Khalid Abdullah Abdulaziz Bin Alshaykh I.S.S.F Director General

and Mr. Ashraf Sayed Abdel Latif Head of I.S.S.F Technical Affairs have attended and

represented the I.S.S.F in these meetings.

During the meeting, the draft resolutions on cultural, social and family affairs,

including resolutions concerning OIC affiliated organizations which include the

Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation, have been reviewed. Furthermore, the draft

resolutions submitted for the forty-third session of the Council of Foreign Ministers

(CFM), scheduled in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, on October 18th -19th, 2016, have

been reviewed.

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Delegation of the I.S.S.F General Secretariat meets with the

Islamic Development Bank (IDB) officials

On Monday, July 25th, 2016, a coordination meeting between the delegation of the

I.S.S.F General Secretariat and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) officials was held,

in the presence of Mr. Khalid Abdullah Abdulaziz Bin Alshaykh I.S.S.F Director

General, Mr. Ashraf Sayed Abdel Latif Head of I.S.S.F Technical Affairs Dr. Abdul

Hakim Allowaar Director of the Department of International Cooperation, Mr. Ahmed

Fawzi and Mr. Abdul Basit Ahmed at the headquarters of the OIC General Secretariat.

They discussed ways to implement the proposal of the I.S.S.F President for signing a

memorandum of understanding between the I.S.S.F and the Islamic Development Bank

(IDB), for the purpose of serving the I.S.S.F objectives and developing its financial

resources to serve the youth in the Muslim world, as well as the IDB's role in supporting

the Islamic Solidarity Games for the participation of all Islamic countries. They also

discussed ways to support some of the I.S.S.F requirements and needs for preparing a

sport strategy in the Islamic countries.

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