H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK signed the Declaration on the Baku Climate Coalition for SMEs’ Green Transition on 23 January 2025, recognising that the Declaration’s goals and strategies align with SESRIC’s mandate, South-South and triangular cooperation mechanisms, and its commitment to sustainable development and collaborative efforts at the OIC level.

The 48^th Meeting of the Board of Directors of SESRIC convened on 23-24 January 2025 at SESRIC headquarters in Ankara, Türkiye.

Within the framework of the Public Employment Services Capacity Building Programme (PES-CaB) and in line with the OIC Public Employment Services Network (OIC-PESNET) Work Plan 2024-2026, SESRIC, in collaboration with the National Agency for Employment and Independent Work of Tunisia (ANETI), organised a Training Course on “Entrepreneurship and Business Creation” on 21-22 January 2025 through an online video conferencing platform.

Within the framework of its Competition Authorities Capacity Building Programme (CA-CaB), SESRIC, in collaboration with Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) and, the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC), organised a Training Course on “The Role of Competition Policy in Enhancing Intra-OIC Trade” on 21-22 January 2025 through an online video conferencing platform.

H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK met with H.E. Mr. Saif ANJUM, Federal Secretary, Ministry for Industries and Production Division of Pakistan.

H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK held a bilateral meeting with H.E. Mr. SHAH at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Islamabad.

A fruitful bilateral meeting took place between H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK and Dr. Naeem Uz ZAFAR, Chief Statistician of the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK participated in the International Conference on “Girls’ Education in Muslim Communities: Challenges and Opportunities,” held on 10-12 January 2025 in Islamabad, Pakistan. This event was organized by the Muslim World League in collaboration with the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training of Pakistan.

SESRIC and the National Institute of Statistics (INS) of the Republic of Guinea have formalized their collaboration by signing a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) as part of the project titled “Integration of Tobacco Questions for Surveys (TQS) into the National Surveys in Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Member Countries”. The MoA was signed by H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK, Director General of SESRIC, and H.E. Dr. Makan DOUMBOUYA, Director General of INS of Guinea.

H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK paid a courtesy visit to the recently appointed Ambassador of Kuwait in Ankara, H.E. Abdulaziz ALADWANI, to discuss strengthening ties between SESRIC and Kuwait.

H.E. Zehra Zümrüt SELÇUK met with H.E. Amb. Abdulhamed HAMZA, Representative of the League of Arab States to Türkiye.

SESRIC held a technical cooperation meeting with the University of Respati Indonesia (URINDO), with the co-facilitation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MoFA-Indonesia), to explore potential areas of cooperation between the two institutions.