Jeddah, August 02, 2022, SPA -- Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha stressed that the OIC attaches great importance to issues of social development in general and social protection in particular. In his speech at the workshop hosted virtually by the Statistical, Economic, and Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), in Ankara, the OIC Secretary-General said that the 14th Islamic Summit Conference in Makkah in 2019 affirmed that the social dimension is essential in achieving sustainable development, and that investing in social protection is a means to achieving development goals. He pointed out that the promotion of policies aimed at strengthening family and social security and providing and facilitating effective and reliable social services for the family, children, the elderly, and people with special needs is one of the objectives of its ten-year program 2025 (OIC-2025). The OIC Secretary-General stressed that holding this workshop is part of the OIC efforts to support its Member States in this regard and follow up on the implementation of the resolutions of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) and the resolutions and recommendations adopted by the First Ministerial Conference on Social Development. --SPA 19:30 LOCAL TIME 16:30 GMT 0019 www.spa.gov.sa/w1769121