27 August 2012 - 14:45

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is slated to arrived in Iran on Wednesday to attend a heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Iraqi premier will be accompanied by a senior delegation of officials.

Iran had also invited Iraqi President Jalal Talabani to attend the NAM summit, but the president sent Prime Minister Maliki as he is in Germany for medical treatment.

A member of the Iraqi Kurdistan Patriotic Union (KPU)'s central office told FNA today that Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is also due to leave for Tehran Monday night to attend a ministerial meeting of the NAM member states which will precede the heads-of-state summit.

Over 150 world states and global bodies have sent their representatives to the NAM meeting in Tehran.

Deputy foreign ministers and senior experts from the NAM member states started their meeting in the Iranian capital on Sunday. The two-day experts meeting which ends this evening and will be followed by the NAM's foreign ministerial meeting on August 28 and 29 is drawing up the agenda for the 16th heads-of-state summit meeting of the bloc to be held in Tehran on Thursday and Friday.


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