J.D. Maged Mamdouh Kamel Shebaita, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation Arbitration Centre (OIC-AC) paid a courtesy visit to Ambassador Isiaka A. Imam, Secretary-General of D8 on 28 September 2023 at 2.30 PM. The meeting took place at the D8 premises in Istanbul. Dr. Alper Çağrı Yılmaz, Deputy Secretary-General and Nihan Çetin, LLM, Head of Marketing and Public Relations accompanied J.D.Kamel. Punjul S. Nugraha, Director of Economy, Implementation and External Relations accompanied Ambassador Imam.
Ambassador Imam welcomed the OIC-AC Delegation and elaborated on the structure, Member-States, and decision-making process of D8.
J.D. Kamel expressed his gratitude to have the honour of meeting with Ambassador Imam. He stressed the establishment process, structure, jurisdiction area, vision, mission and values of the OIC-AC. He briefed Ambassador Imam on the internationality of each organ of the OIC-AC, and presented the Rules of the OIC-AC. He mentioned that the OIC-AC had global jurisdiction on commercial and investment disputes as well as Islamic finance, which was an increasingly growing market in both Islamic and non-Islamic countries. J.D. Kamel went on to state that the OIC-AC had been appointed as the dispute resolution body via arbitration clauses at various international contracts, received its first arbitration case, and highlighted that more were about to arrive.
The parties exchanged views on areas of mutual cooperation.