Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has slammed as unacceptable "any divisive move" at the ongoing Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) conference.

Rouhani made the remark in an address to the 13th OIC summit in the Turkish city of Istanbul, which kicked off on Thursday.

“No message which would fuel division in the Islamic Ummah should come out of the conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation," Rouhani said.
He added that “any divisive move [at the OIC] is invalid,” as it does not enjoy the consensus of the member states and Muslim community and as it is against the goal of the organization.

Rouhani’s remarks came amid Saudi Arabia’s efforts to include statements against Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement in the draft declaration of the OIC summit.

The OIC draft was prepared during an expert-level meeting of the organization in February in the Saudi port city of Jaddah. The Iranian officials could not attend in the meeting as they were denied visas by Riyadh.

On Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also slammed Saudi Arabia’s move to include statements against Tehran and Hezbollah as “destructive.” He warned that attempts by the Saudis to use the OIC mechanism to achieve their political goals resemble efforts by the former regime of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein against Iran during the organization’s meeting at the time of Iraq’s imposed war against Iran in the 1980s.

By Press TV