Sheikh Abdullah Saleh Kamel wants meetings measured by what they build. Opening the second Business Leaders Summit in Istanbul, the president of the Islamic Chamber of Commerce and Development announced a European chapter for the B57+ initiative, in remarks reported on 1 November 2026.
The chapter's first activities will start in Brussels in the coming weeks. Its purpose is to connect business communities in the 57 member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with their European counterparts, and Kamel said he hopes to open an office for the initiative at the Brussels premises of the Turkish chambers and commodity exchanges union, TOBB, whose support he praised.
Speaking on the sidelines of the 42nd session of COMCEC, the OIC's standing committee on economic and commercial cooperation, he argued that the Islamic world has the capital, resources, markets and people to carry more economic weight. The real test, he said, is turning that potential into investment, projects and partnerships.
The chamber launched B57+ in 2025. It now rests on three platforms: the annual summit, a programme for settling commercial disputes through mediation and arbitration, and the new European chapter. Kamel said trust in the business environment is a key to drawing foreign investment, especially in less developed member states, and that industrial and logistics integration has become a necessity for supply chains and exports.
The chamber, founded in 1977 and based in Karachi, wants B57+ to become a year-round platform for business leaders.
