"The world has just experienced very serious economic meltdown and has not yet recovered from it. Now is the right time for us to cooperate in dealing with the challenge and hindrance to the only access to recovery, namely economic growth," the vice president said in an emailed statement to ANTARA.
Through the forum, WIEF member countries could try to identify practical steps to ensure that the planned economic growth could be achieved in a fair manner in accordance with Islamic teachings, he said.
Better connectivity among and within WIEF member countries was a key to achieving growth for the better mobility and efficient use of resources, he said.
In the meantime, better connectivity was also an important step to narrow and reduce disparities among and within WIEF member countries, he said.
The vice president further said the Muslim community had a sacred mission as a proactive player and maker of global consensus.
"We must accept it as part of our tasks to contribute to the settlement of urgent global issues which are now being faced by mankind such as food and energy security, climate change, natural disasters and transnational crimes," he said.
WIEF was established by Malaysia`s World Islamic Economic Forum Foundation to encourage economic relations within the Muslim world, as well as connecting non-Muslim societies to Muslim ones via business.(*)
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