AFP, Dakar
Muslim presidents, kings and other senior leaders held closed talks at a summit yesterday to hammer out a new charter for the world’s biggest Islamic group, officials said.
Organisation of the Islamic Conference leaders say a new charter is necessary to modernise and reform the group of 57 nations concentrated in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
But there has been intense debate about issues ranging from whether to restrict eligibility for new membership to Muslim majority states and even how to define “self-determination” for the Palestinian people, diplomats said.

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