OIC Science and Technology Summit

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev for the first time announced this initiative during his speech at the OIC Summit in Istanbul on April 14–15, 2016.

The Summit was attended by 56 OIC member countries, including the heads of state of Azerbaijan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Bangladesh,Uzbekistan and representatives of international and regional organizations.

The Summit adopted the Astana Declaration, which is designed to provide political support for scientific and technological modernization in the Islamic world.

[2] The ceremony of awarding the OIC Prize to outstanding scientists who contributed to the development of science and technology tool place during the event.

At the initiative of the Turkish delegation, there had been prepared a final report on the issue of Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar.