(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Talking to us on the sidelines of the cabinet session, he added that hosting the summit will highlight Iran’s role in the world.
The NAM member states have welcomed Iranian presidency over the large international forum indicating Iran’s influential presence in the international scene, he said.
Given the magnitude of NAM as the international alliance, NAM Summit is the biggest international gathering after the UN General Assembly, Mir Tajeddini said.
NAM is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power blocs. As of 2012, the movement had 120 member states and 21 observer nations.
The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito, India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesia's first president, Sukarno. All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War.
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