The final statement of the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran underlined the Palestinian nation's right to have an independent state with the Holy Qods as its capital.
"The occupation of Palestine and the crimes of the Zionist regime in the occupied territories have always been the root causes of tensions in the Middle-East," The statement, issued on Friday night, said.
"Any solution to end the crisis should include ways to end occupation, restore the inalienable rights of the Palestinian nation, specially their rights to determine their own fate and establishment of a stable and independent country with the Holy Qods as its capital, as the only way to establish sustainable peace in the region," it added.
The statement, which includes 11 clauses, said that heads of NAM member states gathered in Tehran to review the current international situation to help resolve problems which have caused serious concerns for both member states and the whole humanity.
It also said that based on the basic principles of the NAM, the NAM members would make great efforts to establish a world full of peace, cooperation, equality and prosperity.
The NAM leaders also underlined formation of a fair, all-inclusive, transparent and effective system of universal management based on cooperation among all countries to confront the current challenges and security and environmental threats, climate changes, immigration and epidemic diseases.
They also said that to address the problems, the present international decision-making procedure on issues pertaining to peace and security is faulty and resists any changes and the United Nations as a global organization should play a basic role in forming a legal and management framework coordinating the activities of states and international bodies on common issues.
The NAM leaders further stressed in their statement that racism and ethnic discrimination are clear insults to the human dignity, stressing that appropriate measures and firm decisions are necessary to confront xenophobia, Islamophobia, new forms of slavery and human trafficking.
Underlining the fact that nuclear arms are the most inhumane forms of all weapons, it said the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is no excuse for big powers to keep huge arms arsenals and it is the absolute right of all countries to develop, research, produce and use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.
The 16th heads-of-state summit of the NAM officially wrapped up work in Tehran on Friday night by issuing a final statement.
During the two-day meeting presided by President Ahmadinejad a number of 63 leaders of the NAM member states conveyed their opinions to their counterparts in the largest international grouping after the UN.
The NAM conference kicked off work here in the Iranian capital on Sunday. NAM's experts first discussed the agenda of the summit meeting on Sunday and Monday followed by the foreign ministers' meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday before the two-day heads-of-state summit which ended last night.
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