JEDDAH Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Dr. Yousef A. AlOthaimeen, has welcomed the Statement released on Thursday, 26 March 2020, at the conclusion of the Extraordinary G20 Leaders’ Summit, which was convened under the chairmanship of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, committing to forge a coordinated and sustained global response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr.YousefA.Al-Othaimeen also appreciated the G20 Leaders’ commitment to take all necessary measures to contain the COVID-19 and protect people, as well as to use all available policy tools to minimize the economic and social cost of the pandemic and to restore global growth, maintain market stability, and strengthen economic resilience. He noted that the alarming social and economic effect ofthe COVID-19 clearly emphasizes the urgency for a coordinated global response to fight the pandemic, adopting measures to safeguard the global economy, minimizing trade disruption and enhancing cooperation among nations. In this context, OIC Secretary General said that the outcome of the Extraordinary G-20 Leaders’ Summit provides a good basis for the coordinated global fight against the pandemic, from which no country is immune.—PR
