(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The President and the Sri Lankan delegation including External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris will attend the summit on Thursday and Friday, the Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs Karunathilaka Amunugama has told the state-run radio SLBC.
The heads of state and governments of the 120-member organization are to meet on August 30 and 31 to discuss nuclear disarmament, human rights and regional issues at the summit. The foreign ministers conference will be held today and tomorrow.
The most important international developments including the violence and crisis in Syria, nuclear disarmament, violation of human rights by the imperial powers, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran's peaceful nuclear program will take center stage at the discussions.
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will also attend the summit defying the requests by the United States and Israel asking him not to attend the NAM summit in Teheran.
The Iranian media reported that a wide security network will be in operation for the heads of state summit and over 100,000 police officers will be deployed to provide security for the attendees.
At the Tehran summit, Iran will take over the presidency of NAM from Egypt for the next three years.
NAM is an international organization with 120 member states that is not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. Nearly two-thirds of the countries of the United Nations are also NAM members.
NAM is the biggest international organization after the United Nations General Assembly.
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