(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Palestinian premier in Gaza Ismail Haneyya is to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement’s summit conference scheduled to open in Tehran by the end of the month, the government’s spokesman Taher Al-Nunu said Saturday.
Nunu told that Haneyya would participate in his capacity as the elected prime minister of Palestine. “We urge all to respect the Palestinian people’s democratic choice,” he added.
Haneyya had received an official invitation from the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to attend the summit.
The PA in Ramallah announced that president Mahmoud Abbas would not attend the conference if Haneyya was invited.
The 16th summit of the NAM member states will be held in the Iranian capital on August 26-31.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will address the Tehran NAM summit during which the Islamic Republic will assume the rotating presidency of the movement for three years.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend the summit in Iran despite pressures from the US and Israel to discuss variety of issues including the Syrian crisis.
NAM, an international organization with 120 member states and 21 observer countries, is considered as not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
NAM's purpose, as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979, is to ensure “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries.”
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26 August 2012 - 03:29
News ID: 339601
Palestinian premier in Gaza Ismail Haneyya is to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement’s summit conference scheduled to open in Tehran by the end of the month, the government’s spokesman Taher Al-Nunu said Saturday.
