HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki ALFAISAL unanimously elected as the ISSF President
The ISSF General Assembly adopted the unanimously election of HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki ALFAISAL, the Chairmanof Saudi Arabia General Sports Authority (GSA) and President of Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee (SAOC), as the president of the Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF) for the current term which will continue until 2021. Accordingly, HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki ALFAISAL becomes the 6th president of ISSF, since its foundation.
The election was held during the Extraordinary Meeting of ISSF held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on the 3rd of Sha’ban 1440 (corresponded to 8th of April 2019) under the chairmanship of the acting president of ISSF Col. Hamad KALKABA with the presence of representatives of 51 out of 57 Members States of the ISSF General Assembly, and with the attendance of ISSF Executive Board Members.
The meeting witnessed presentation of the reports by the ISSF Secretary General Mr. Mohammed Saleh AL-GARNAS after being submitted by the ISSF General Secretariat for the previous 2018.
At the meeting HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki ALFAISAL delivered a speech to welcome all Members of ISSF General Assembly to their second home the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and extended, on their behalf, sincere thanks to His Excellency the Consultant Turky bin Abbdulmohsen AK-ALSHEIKH the former president of ISSF for his support and follow-up to the implementation of the programs & activities of ISSF.
HRH Prince thanked, also, All NOCs of the member States of ISSF for the valuable trust in him and for electing him unanimously.
He added, due to the true belief of the ISSF of the importance of maintaining the success already achieved by the grace of Almighty God during the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games hosted by the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2017( where 54 Islamic States participated therein), the ISSF will dedicate all it potential to accomplish success and to implement continuous hard works in various programs and activities organized by the ISSF to reflect bright and true picture of Muslim Youth and their unity and solidarity and to reflect the values of fraternity and passion prevailing on them as inspired by the religion of Islam.
HRH Prince stressed the importance of developing flexible, practical and multiple programs that can produce distinguished patterns of Muslim heroes and stars available in our countries to help them to move globally towards fields of stronger competitions.
He also highlighted that the future plans of ISSF should cope with the sport growth currently seen on global sides by availing proper financial resources that would enable the ISSF to achieve its objectives and plans, in cooperation with the NOCs of the Member States.
He expressed his willingness to cooperate with everybody to achieve the objectives of ISSF and to implement its programs for the benefit of the Muslim athletes and youth, stressing the importance that competitions of the ISSF should be influential, active and attractive.
At the end of his speech HRH expressed his own gratitude as well as gratitude of the members of ISSF General Assembly and Executive Board to the Government of the Two Holy Mosques king Salman bin Abdulaziz AL SAUD and the Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman Al Saud, May God Preserve them, for their generous support and patronizing the ISSF.
It is worth mentioning that HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Turki ALFAISAL has also chaired the 30th meeting of ISSF Executive Board during which the file of candidacy of “Al-Quds Al-Sharif” for the title of the “Capital of Sports of Islamic Countries for 2020”was welcomed as an initial step of its approval by the next meeting of the ISSF General Assembly.
However, future programs of the ISSF as well as work process of the ISSF General Secretariat were discussed during the same meeting.