THE ISLAMIC IMPETUS

For more than a year the governments of many Islamic states, including notably Saudi Arabia and Iran, have been speaking out strongly about the situation of the Bosnian Muslims in the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. Now, however, the Islamic Conference Organisation (ICO) and many of its member states have gone beyond declarations. At a special ministerial meeting in Islamabad the ICO agreed on 13 July on the dispatch of troops by seven Islamic countries for a much enlarged UN force in Bosnia-Hercegovina.