27 August 2012 - 16:18

A senior Iranian legislator praised the Non-Aligned Movement member states' unprecedented and massive participation in the NAM's 16th heads-of-states summit in Tehran despite all enemy efforts and propaganda to keep the world leaders away from Tehran.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "The NAM member states' welcome to the Tehran conference is massive and unprecedented in the history of the Movement's meetings," Secretary of the parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Mohammad Hassan Asafari told FNA on Monday.

"The Americans were attempting for over two months to display Iran as too insecure to host the summit but fortunately, the meeting received a warm welcome from the member states and even the international organizations," he added.

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.

Iran announced last week that 100 world states have announced their preparedness to participate in the NAM summit despite enemies' attempts to prevent the presence of certain guests in the conference.

"The presence of 100 NAM members in Tehran is for sure, thus far," Director-General of the Iranian Presidential Office for International Affairs Mohammad Reza Forqani told reporters in a press conference in Tehran at the time.

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