October 4, 2007 (LPAC)--At the end of their annual meeting at the United Nations in New York, the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Islamic Conference issued a statement October 3, and "expressed concern over the pressure being mounted on Iran and its potential consequences for peace and security in and outside the region, and expressed its support and solidarity with that country."

"The Meeting, while reaffirming the inalienable rights of Member States, including Iran, without discrimination, to develop research, production, and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, as enshrined in the NPT and the Statue of the IAEA, called and supported firmly the settlement of all outstanding issues exclusively by peaceful means and through negotiations..." The statement further states that, "The Meeting rejected any efforts to abuse the Security Council as a tool to pursue certain political and national agendas..." It also "rejected politically motivated attempts to unjustly associate any Islamic country with terrorism.... The Meeting reiterated its rejection of unilateral economic measures and attempts to impose unilateral economic sanctions on Member States."

The OIC has 56 Member states.