{"id":8351,"date":"2020-05-08T21:07:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2020-05-08T21:07:49","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T21:07:49","slug":"isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","title":{"rendered":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.<\/p>\n

Minister of State, President Office and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Issa Haji Ussi, told the House of Representatives that only fully fledged republics qualify as OIC members.<\/p>\n

Mr Ussi was responding to arguments by members of the House while debating his office\u2019s 2020\/2021 budget speech.<\/p>\n

He said Zanzibar attempted to join the 51-year old organisation in 1992 but it was later compelled to leave because Zanzibar lacked criterion as an autonomous state.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2019The move by Zanzibar to join the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation appeared to be a blatant violation of the constitution because issues of international cooperation fall under the United Republic of Tanzania,\u201d the minister explained.<\/p>\n

Debating the budget speech, Uzini Representative in the House Mohamed Raza advised the Indian Ocean\u2019s semi-autonomous archipelago to join the OIC whose charter aims at preserving Islamic social and economic values; promoting solidarity amongst member states; increasing cooperation in social, economic, cultural, scientific, and political areas; upholding international peace and security; as well as advancing education, particularly in the fields of science and technology.<\/p>\n

He argued that membership to the organisation will enable the country to benefit from aid and other services provided to member states.<\/p>\n

The minister further explained that the matter has been discussed exhaustively, adding that when the appropriate time comes, the isles will join the organisation through the Union government.<\/p>\n

Zanzibar first joined the OIC under former President Salmin Amour Juma but was later forced to withdraw after it emerged that there was a huge violation of the constitution of the Union Republic of Tanzania.<\/p>\n

The illegal membership cost the job of the then Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Ambassador Hassan Diria who resigned alongside other senior officers in the ministry.<\/p>\n

The OIC was founded in 1969 with 57 members whose collective population stood at over 1.8 billion as of 2015. Of its members, 53 were Muslim-majority countries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n
\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AfricaPress-Tanzania: ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications. Minister of State, President Office and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Issa Haji Ussi, told the House of Representatives that only fully fledged republics qualify as OIC members. Mr Ussi was responding to arguments by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[3729,3728,603],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-issa-haji-ussi","tag-oic","tag-zanzibar"],"yoast_head":"\nISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"569\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\"},\"wordCount\":333,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg\",\"keywords\":[\"Issa Haji Ussi\",\"OIC\",\"Zanzibar\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\",\"name\":\"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":569,\"caption\":\"????????????????????????????????????\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT - Tanzania","description":"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT","og_description":"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":569,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT","datePublished":"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out"},"wordCount":333,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg","keywords":["Issa Haji Ussi","OIC","Zanzibar"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out","name":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg","datePublished":"2020-05-08T21:07:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"ZANZIBAR has ruled out the prospect of joining the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) due to lack of qualifications.Minister of State,","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/05\/90cb665643dff2796b68bb5ccc2c9ebe.jpeg","width":1024,"height":569,"caption":"????????????????????????????????????"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/policy\/isles-oic-affiliation-prospects-ruled-out#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"ISLES\u2019 OIC AFFILIATION PROSPECTS RULED OUT"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}