President Ahmadinejad Receives North Korea's Senior Envoy Presidium Kim Yong Nam to Tehran

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A number of Iran's cabinet members including Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mehdi Ghazanfari, Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereydoon Abbasi Davani and some other Iranian officials were present in the welcoming ceremony of the North Korean official to the Presidential Office on Saturday.

Iranian President and North Korean official are to review the latest international and regional developments.

Kim Yong Nam attended the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran on August 30-31.

The NAM summit started on August 26, in which Tehran received NAM rotating presidency for a period of three years from Egypt.

The 16th NAM heads-of-state summit was held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, this Thursday and Friday.

The NAM's experts meeting kicked off work in the Iranian capital on Sunday and was be followed by the foreign ministers' meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday before the two-day summit of the heads-of-state.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc.

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.