Dhaka: Bangladesh has proposed restructuring of the charter of the Organisation of Islamic Conference to pave way for the inclusion of non-Muslim countries like India as an "observer state".
The OIC is a 57-member grouping of Muslim majority nations.
"A number of countries not OIC members, have large number of Muslims as their citizens... There is a need to build bridges with those non-OIC countries," Bangladesh
foreign minister Mahmud Ali said, as his counterparts in the group joined in their annual council called Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) in Dhaka.
He said the induction was needed so that a large number of Muslim population "do not remain untouched by the good work of OIC and "that is why, reforms and re-structuring is critical for OIC".