Meeting with Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexii II
The President thanked His Holiness for the position taken by the Russian Orthodox Church and said that cooperation between Russia and the OIC would create a channel for communication between Russian Muslims and authoritative international Muslim organisations, giving Russia’s Muslim population a chance to feel itself a part of the wider Islamic world.
Russia has been invited as a guest to the tenth OIC summit in Malaysia, but it hopes to eventually obtain observer status with the organisation.