Jeddah, Sha'ban 30, 1436, Jun 17, 2015, SPA -- The General Secretariat of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is monitoring with concern the western media tendentious campaigns targeting the state of Qatar, an OIC Member, casting doubt on its right to host the World Cup for football in 2022. The General Secretariat emphasizes that organizing the 2022 World Cup in the State of Qatar represents an achievement for the OIC Member States and renews its call to the institutions of the Joint Islamic Action and to the media institutions in the Member States to stress the right of the State of Qatar to organize the 2022 World Cup, which has been acknowledged and affirmed by all the OIC Member States in the relevant resolutions adopted by the forty-second session of the OIC Conference of Foreign Ministers held on 27-28 May 2015 in Kuwait, particularly Resolution No. 2/10-INF on "Internal and External Media Action in Partnership with OIC Member States' and international media institutions" issued by the OIC Tenth Conference of Information and Communication Ministers, which was held on 3-4 December 2014 in Tehran, where paragraph 5 states: Condemns biased Western media campaigns against the State of Qatar, which question the latter's eligibility to organize the 2022 World Cup, and some Western media's insistence on spreading false and prejudiced information aimed at questioning its eligibility to organize the 2022 World Cup, despite Qatar's bid winning the organization of the mondial through fair and transparent competition. It underlines that holding 2022 World Cup in the State of Qatar, an OIC Member State, is in itself an achievement of all OIC countries and a right of all the peoples of the Muslim world. It therefore invites joint Islamic action institutions and mass media in OIC Member States to support the State of Qatar in refuting disinformation and incitement by some Western media in this regard. While reiterating its full support for the State of Qatar to host this important sports event, as the first Muslim state ever to play host to such a world event, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) stresses its support to the State of Qatar and to all that would ensure its success in hosting the World Cup, as well as to its efforts towards optimal preparations for the event. It applauds the level of progress reached in the preparations and welcomes Qatar's continued preparations to host the 2022 World Cup. The General Secretariat also wishes to stress in this regard the role played by sports in consolidating peace, solidarity, mutuality and social and economic development, as well to the worldwide popularity of the football game as a building block in approaching peoples, boosting development and peace and building interfaith and intercultural bridges. --SPA 19:58 LOCAL TIME 16:58 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w