(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hoshyar Zabari who had arrived in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini (P) International Airport early Tuesday morning to attend the ministerial conference of the Nam Summit added addressing the present reporters at the ceremonial pavilion of the airport, “Trying to uproot poverty, improvement of the relations among nations, medical services and Palestinian nation’s problems would be among the other issues to be surveyed during the two day meeting.”
He emphasized, “The XVI Tehran NAM Summit is one of the most important conferences held in the region this year as this movement is one of the greatest international organizations.”
Pointing out that the Non-Aligned Movement has 120 members from five continents around the globe, the Iraqi foreign minister noted, “The sponsoring of the 16th Summit meeting in Tehran is of great importance both due to the time it is held and due to the place, and very significant issues would be surveyed by the present member countries.”
Zabari added, “Iraq is present at this conference at highest possible level.”
He noted that being present in Iran is joyful for the Iraqi officials, arguing, “The most important shared decisions would be published in the final communiqué of the XVI Summit Conference and that communiqué would definitely be approved by the majority of the present countries at the summit.”
The two-day NAM Foreign Ministers Conference would begin in Tehran on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The XVI Tehran NAM Summit Meeting, too, would be held at the Tehran Summits Hall on Thursday August 30th and Friday August 31st.
The Non-Aligned Movement, the rotating presidency of which was conferred to Iran on August 26, is a major international organization comprising 120 member states that represent the political, cultural, economic and social interests of the developing world.
The movement which is consisted of two third of the UN member states was established in 1961 in Belgrade and despite the fact that the majority of its members are developing nations, many of them play a defining and determining role in such strategic regions as the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.
Over the past weeks, Iranian President has been sending envoys to different NAM member countries to invite their heads of state and government to attend the forthcoming summit in Tehran.
The latest NAM summit was held in Egypt’s Sharm al-Sheikh from July 11-16, 2009 and Tehran will host representatives from 100 of the 120 countries in the forthcoming gathering.
Now, Iranian officials expect that a great number of the member states will attend the summit in high levels and it goes without saying that the presence of so many officials from different world countries in the conference which will be hosted by Tehran may not be pleasant and favorable to those who want to see Iran’s regional dominance and international influence derailed.
NAM enjoys remarkable capacities for shaping a new global order based on respecting the rights of the developing nations which are more often than not treated indecorously by the hegemonic powers. With the active cooperation of the member states, NAM can realize its innumerable potentialities and extricate itself from the domination of the superpowers that are usually after exploiting the precious natural resources of these countries.
The Non-Aligned Movement is said to be the largest international organization after the United Nations and it has the capability of effectively influencing the international developments if its member states take its mechanisms seriously and are convinced that their participation in the process of decision-making and collaboration will help them have a say in the global political and economic equations. They can assist each other in diplomatic lobbying in important events such as the UN General Assembly, selecting the non-permanent members of the Security Council and making decisions in the UN Human Rights Council as well as contributing to the progress of entities such as the African Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Although non-association and non-alliance with the western and eastern superpowers is a characteristic feature of the members of the movement, emerging superpowers such as China, Brazil and Mexico serve NAM as observing members.
Moreover, countries such as India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa which have strong ties with the United States and are members of the G20 group (the bloc of 20 world major economies) are among the NAM member states.
Iran’s presidency over such a prominent international organization comes while the European Union has just put into effect its intended oil embargo against Iran, banning the European states from importing oil from Iran, the world’s fourth largest oil producer. At the same time, the United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions against Iran’s banking sector, penalizing the foreign banks which have financial transactions with Iranian counterparts.
The United States, Israel and Europe are pressing Iran on multiple fronts so as to isolate the country and undermine its regional clout: from propagating falsehood and mendacity about Iran and Iranians in the mainstream media to launching malicious cyber attacks against the computers operating in Iran’s nuclear facilities, passing anti-Iranian resolutions in the UN Security Council, relentlessly murdering the country’s nuclear scientists, imposing hard-hitting financial sanctions and beating the drum of war.
However, Iran has persistently and determinedly tolerated all the hardships and is now foiling the mischievous plots one after another.
The upcoming NAM summit in Tehran is an invaluable opportunity for Iran to show its diplomatic prowess and demonstrate that it’s impossible for the bullying powers and their stooges to isolate it.
Although it’s an unwritten convention that not all the heads of state will take part in such summits as NAM, it can be predictable that the important event which will take place with the participation of several high-ranking officials from different world countries will mark the spring of Iranian diplomacy and a backbreaking blow to those who want to find Iran isolated, secluded and fragile. The event will unquestionably testify that Iran has not become that lonely and friendless country which the United States and its lackeys want.
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