(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Mehman-Parast, who was speaking on the sidelines of the NAM experts meeting, said, "The initial draft of the XIV NAM Summit document was inclusive of 688 articles in three chapters, which was surveyed by two committees of the summit, namely the political and the economic committees of the NAM Senior Experts."
"Relying on the existing mutual understanding and the management applied in the conference, the committees' ratifications were received on Sunday and today, Monday, too, the Senior Experts were informed by the Secretary General of the Experts Conference of ratifications, which were confirmed by the entire senor experts, and thus the work of these experts came to its end."
Mehman-Parast pointed out that the Secretary General of the Senior Experts Conference would deliver the draft prepared by them to the NAM Foreign Ministers Conference, reiterating, "The presence of very high ranking delegations at the NAM Conference is all by itself very noticeable, and promises that we would be witnesses to greater activities of the NAM members in accordance with the initial founders of the movement in the framework of the proposed document."
He reiterated, "On this basis, we hope reforms would take place in the process of the NAM activities so that from now on this movement would also support respecting the territorial integrity of the countries."
Mehman-Parast expressed hope, "The prepared document at the 16th conference after being confirmed by the heads of the NAM member countries would be turned into a document that would during the management of the Islamic Republic of Iran and relying on the participation of the entire member countries, lead to the manifestation of the entire demands of the NAM members.
He referred to the motto of the ongoing conference, "Sustainable Peace under the Umbrella of World Management" pointing out, "We hope this motto would be materialized. We have always been stressing the need for establishment of peace and justice at global level, and this would be achieved only based on public participation of all countries and ending the totalitarian tendencies of a few world powers."
The 16th NAM summit started on August 26 in Tehran and lasts for six days.
Iran received the rotating presidency of the movement from Egypt for three years on August 26.
NAM senior experts meeting was held on August 26-27 and will be followed by NAM foreign minister on August 28-29.
NAM was founded in Belgrade in 1961 by Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesian president Sukarno, all legends of the national liberation movement, with solid anti-imperial credentials, who advocated a middle course for the developing world between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War.
Its principles are solidarity and peaceful resolution of conflicts, though it was founded as a counterweight to the superpowers, abjuring big power military alliances and pacts.
Nonetheless, NAM represents nearly two-thirds of UN members and 55% of the world's population. At the seventh summit held in New Delhi in 1983, the movement described itself as "history's biggest peace movement", placing equal emphasis on disarmament.
/106
