(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Belarusian delegation today led by newly appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs Uladzimir Makiej partakes in the summit of the Non Aligned Movement in Tehran.
The Foreign Ministry of Belarus says the main days of the XVI summit will be August 30–31. The summit is aimed at discussing the major international issues and adopting the final document of the forum.
The FM says that several Belarusian proposals based on Belarus’ delegation to the UN priorities are planned to be included in the summit’s final document: such as tolerance to diverse ways of progressive development; creation of global partnership networks; enhancing the cooperation between the NAM with the world power hubs; countermeasures against human trafficking; youth development; issues of countries with low incomes; creation of global mechanism on transitions of new and renewable energy sources technologies.
Uladzimir Makiej is going to speak at a plenary session and also to meet with several delegations’ leaders to discuss “bilateral cooperation issues important for Belarus”.
At previous summit in Egypt in 2009, Belarus was also represented by then FM Siarhiej Martynau.
However, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited Aliaksandr Lukashenka to attend this year’s summit personally.
Lukashenka participated in the NAM summit in Havana in 2006. Then, he called on to activate economic and political vectors within the movement and to rebuild the NAM’s structure to correspond to the same of the UN, and also to shape a programme on establishment of the multi-polar world.
The Non-Aligned Movement was formed by ex-colonies which did not wanted to join any military or political block controlled by the USA or the USSR.
Today the NAM counts 118 members all over the world.
Belarus became interested in the NAM in mid-1990s. Belarus considered the NAM to be the alternative to the cooperation with the West as the relations were spoiled considerably in 1996.
Belarus received the status of an observer in the NAM in September, 1997, and in September, 1998, it became its full member.
In 2004, after Malta and Cyprus joined the EU, Belarus remained the only NAM movement in Europe.
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