(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Iranian Spokesman of the 16th NAM Summit in Tehran, Ramin Mehman-Parast, said the document includes 667 articles classified in three chapters.
According to Mehman-Parast, world and international topics come in the first chapter, some regional crisis such as the Middle East and Latin America, … in the second chapter and some other topics like human rights, development, security, health, food, … in the third chapter.
He said the summit will also issue a statement on Palestine and deal with Syria's recent crisis.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman further added that since this round of the NAM summit in Tehran is to host 118 foreign delegations, 2 kings, 27 presidents, 8 prime minister, 9 vice-presidents, 6 special envoys, 23 to 25 foreign ministers as well as other senior officials, the NAM draft document and other outcomes of the summit will be more effective than ever.
He also said that Iran is to try to communicate with participating delegations in order to change NAM into an organization whose approvals and ratifications could be binding.
The 16th NAM summit will be held in Tehran from August 26 to 31
Iran will assume the rotating presidency of the movement from Egypt for three years
during the upcoming summit.
The Non-Aligned Movement is a Movement of 115 members representing the interests and priorities of developing countries. The Movement has its origin in the Asia-Africa Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955. The meeting was convened upon the invitation of the Prime Ministers of Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia and Pakistan and brought together leaders of 29 states, mostly former colonies, from the two continents of Africa and Asia, to discuss common concerns and to develop joint policies in international relations.
Prime Minister Nehru, the acknowledged senior statesman, along with Prime Ministers Sukarno and Nasser, led the conference. At the meeting Third World leaders shared their similar problems of resisting the pressures of the major powers, maintaining their independence and opposing colonialism and neo-colonialism, especially western domination.
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26 August 2012 - 13:17
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he Draft document of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has been compiled and prepared, Iranian officials said, adding that the document will go under two days of discussions by NAM senior experts who started their meeting earlier this morning.
