AKIPRESS.COM - Kazakhstan has allocated a grant of US$ 749,000 for the initial activities of the Islamic Organization for Food Security (IOFS), said director general of the IOFS Secretariat Yerzhan Zhalmukhanov at a briefing in the framework of 7th Ministerial Conference of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on food security and agricultural development, Kazinform reported.

The grant will be directed to the maintenance of Astana office and creation of the necessary infrastructure.

The number of the IOFS member states is 31.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have joined the IOFS lately.