POLITICS
“RUSSIA- ISLAMIC WORLD” GROUP OF STRATEGIC VISION HOLDS FIRST SESSION
The president of Commercial and Industrial Chamber Yevgeni Primakov, addressing the opening of session, has stopped on the purposes of creation of the group. Having noted, that the group of strategic vision is a consultative body created for expansion of cooperation between Russia and the Islamic countries, Y. Primakov has emphasized, that today one of the greatest dangers to the world is its division on religious attribute.
It was marked, that 20 million of Moslems live in Russia and they are the organic part of indigenous population. Therefore, Russia is a bridge between the Europe and Asia. Serious danger of division of the world on religious attribute is accompanied by terrorism on international arena. It was emphasized, that the terrorism couldn’t be connected with Moslem doctrine.
Y. Primakov has noted, that one of the problems of the group of strategic vision is the different explanation between the fundamental Islam and its radical forms. The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Ikmaleddin Ihsanoglu sent greetings to the session participants, whereby he marked, that holding this forum, Russia opens new page in history of the relations with the Islamic world.
To note, Russia has received the observer status at OIC, which includes 57 Muslim states, including, some CIS countries - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.