(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Hoshyar Zabari arrived in Tehran's Imam Khomeini (P) International Airport early Tuesday morning to attend the ministerial conference of the Nam Summit, reported the Islamic republic news agency.
Addressing the reporters present at the ceremonial pavilion of the airport, he said, "Uprooting poverty, improving relations among nations, medical services and resolving 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 16th NAM summit is being held in Tehran from August 26 to 31. Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement from Egypt for three years in the opening ceremony of the summit.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. The movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries.
The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito; India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Indonesia's first president, Sukarno. All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War. The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.
In a speech given during the Havana Declaration of 1979, Fidel Castro said the purpose of the organization is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics."
The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and contain 55% of the world population. Membership is particularly concentrated in countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World.
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Addressing the reporters present at the ceremonial pavilion of the airport, he said, "Uprooting poverty, improving relations among nations, medical services and resolving 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 16th NAM summit is being held in Tehran from August 26 to 31. Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement from Egypt for three years in the opening ceremony of the summit.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. The movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries.
The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito; India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Indonesia's first president, Sukarno. All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War. The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.
In a speech given during the Havana Declaration of 1979, Fidel Castro said the purpose of the organization is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics."
The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and contain 55% of the world population. Membership is particularly concentrated in countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World.
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