27 August 2012 - 14:35

Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi will take part in the16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) -Egypt’s interests section in Tehran announced this on Monday without elaborating on the exact time for al-Arabi’s arrival.

More than 100 countries are partaking in the NAM summit that kicked off in Tehran on Sunday and is scheduled to end on August 31.

 During the opening ceremony of the NAM expert-level meeting, Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement for three years.


The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is also expected to partake in the event.

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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