(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) A senior Iranian legislator underscored the importance of the 16th heads-of-state summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran, and said the high-profile conference was of much help for Iranian economy.
"The most important achievement of hosting the NAM summit for Iran can be seen and evaluated in the field of economy," said a member of the parliament's Industries and Mines Commission Hossein Garousi on Saturday.
"We witnessed that the leaders of more than 120 countries who participated in the Tehran conference stressed one issue in their different and separate talks, and that was the expansion of relations with Iran," he added.
The 16th NAM summit was held in the Iranian capital, Tehran, from August 26 to 31. At the Tehran summit, Iran received the presidency of the grouping.
NAM, which is comprised of some 120 member and 17 observer states, is an international organization of states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. NAM is the largest grouping of countries outside of the United Nations.
During the 6 days of the conference, the Iranian officials held meetings with the heads of state and important leaders of different countries attending the conference on different regional and international issues as well as the bilateral relations.
NAM member states represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and comprise 55% of the world population, particularly countries considered to be developing or part of the Third World.
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