04 October 2005

Islamic Free Trade

Well, this would be a good start...

Muslim countries have been urged to set up an Islamic common market as a way of boosting trade and development.

The call came at the end of a three-day World Islamic Economic Forum held under the auspices of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

The forum in Kuala Lumpur said the OIC's 57 nations could gain economic clout internationally by signing an Islamic free trade agreement.

At present, OIC countries' collective GDP is less than 5% of the world total.

Trading between OIC countries is worth about $800bn (£456bn) - no more than 7% of global trade as a whole.

This would be a good step toward bringing the Islamic world into the twenty-first century. The biggest step they could take, though, would be to renounce terrorism and fight it.

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