Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar says the guiding principles of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) are important and can help resolve today’s global challenges.
“NAM is clearly a very important organization and if you look at the guiding principles that NAM espouses [it] looks like that [it] is the need of the hour,” Rabbani Khar told Press TV on Wednesday.
“Respecting the sovereignty of countries, respecting the independence and territorial integrity of countries and NAM principals of non-interference are extremely important,” she added.
Rabbani Khar also expressed hope that Iran's presidency of the NAM can facilitate finding peaceful solutions to current world crises.
“In today’s world the NAM principle of finding peaceful solutions to conflicts is of course extremely important and we hope that Iran and its presidency will be able to espouse that and will be able to promote that in the burning issues that we see in the region today,” she stated.
More than 100 countries are partaking in the NAM meeting which kicked off at the expert level in Tehran on Sunday.
At the opening ceremony of the NAM expert-level meeting, Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement for three years. Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations Mootaz Khalil formally handed over the presidency to Iran.
The two-day foreign ministerial meeting of the NAM summit has begun and is currently underway in the Iranian capital.
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