TEHRAN – The Turkish Foreign Ministry has released a statement voicing support for a peaceful resolution of conflicts and mediation as tools to achieve peace and stability in the region.

“With this understanding and with a view to contributing to the capacity building efforts of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the field of mediation, Turkey, as the current Chair of the Summit and the Executive Committee of the OIC, will organize the first OIC Member States Conference on Mediation in Istanbul on 21 November 2017,” read the statement sent to the Tehran Times by the Turkish embassy in Tehran.

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