(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Talking to us, Prof. Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi said that the NAM meeting demonstrates that Iran has wide spread diplomatic interaction in international community despite the US efforts to isolate the Islamic Republic.
“This will help Iran to project its point of view and mobilize support against western efforts to pressurize Iran over its peaceful nuclear program,” said the analyst.
The 16th NAM Summit meeting began in Tehran on August 26.
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 UN are also NAM members.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi has said that Iran is an influential and a key-player country in international arena and hence everything in regional and international areas will meet a dead-end in the absence of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Egypt has handed over the chairmanship of NAM to Iran for the next three years.
To a question Dr Hasan Askari Rizvi said the visit of new Egyptian President to Tehran is a major development and this is expected to start an era of good relationship between the two countries that had suffered during the period of Hosni Mubarak.
To another question the intellectual said that the NAM will suggest certain ideas to resolve crisis in Syria. “For example NAM countries will voice against foreign interference in Syria and would suggest an internal dialogue,” he said.
“NAM could play a major role for finding a solution to the crisis of Syria,” believed the analyst.
Hasan Askari Rizvi is a scholar of international repute. His articles regularly appear both in National as well as International Academic Journals, Popular Magazines and daily Newspapers.
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