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Source: http://english.aljazeera.net/focus/2009/10/20091021112649368100.html
Islamic Conference Initiated Goldstone Inquiry
[Al-Jazeera-Qatar] Established in 1969 to safeguard global Muslim interests, the 57-member Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental body after the UN. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the OIC, says the organization was the "initiator" of a UN war crimes inquiry in Gaza: "What I would like to put on record is that the OIC was the initiator of this process. On January 3, during the attacks on Gaza, we convened the executive committee of the OIC on a ministerial level. It was decided that the OIC group in Geneva should ask the Human Rights Council to convene and consider the possibility of sending a fact-finding mission to Gaza. The OIC was instrumental in getting through this resolution."