The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الإسلامي; French: Organisation de la coopération islamique) is an international organization founded in 1969, consisting of 57 member states, with a collective population of over 1.8 billion as of 2015 with 53 countries being Muslim-majority countries. The organisation states that it is "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and works to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony".
The OIC has permanent delegations to the United Nations and the European Union. The official languages of the OIC are Arabic, English, and French.
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia ) from 1970 to 1974
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Hassan Al-Touhami (Egypt ) from 1974 to 1975
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Amadou Karim Gaye (Senegal ) from 1975 to 1979
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Habib Chatty (Tunisia ) from 1979 to 1984
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Syed Sharifuddin Pirzada (Pakistan ) from 1984 to 1988
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Hamid Algabid (Niger ) from 1988 to 1996
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Azeddine Laraki (Morocco ) from 1996 to 2000
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Abdelouahed Belkeziz (Morocco ) from 2000 to 2004
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Ekmeleddin Ä°hsanoÄŸlu (Turkey) from 2004 to 2014
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Iyad bin Amin Madani (Saudi Arabia) from 2014 to 2016
- Secretaries-General of the OIC Yousef Al-Othaimeen (Saudi Arabia) from 2016 to Current
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