(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed Iran's success in hosting the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) despite western propaganda, and said that Iran will seek new organizational structures for the NAM.
President Ahmadinejad praised Iran's success in holding the 16th Summit of the NAM despite Western propaganda, adding that during the summit Iran "renewed its friendships with many nations".
During its three-year presidency of the NAM, Iran will follow the movement's recent decisions to increase its functionality throughout the world, he further added in an interview with IRIB in Tehran late on Tuesday.
Ahmadinejad said that the infrastructures are required for the fulfillment of "sustainable peace with global participation".
"One of our major missions is creating structures" to meet the demands of NAM member states on the international political scene, Ahmadinejad added.
The Iranian president noted that Tehran is in favor of the participation of all countries in international affairs to fight corruption, which is created by the monopoly of power.
"In any conflict, at least one of the warring parties is fighting for power and hegemony," Ahmadinejad stated.
He also said that Iran seeks peace and friendship with all countries in the world, except for the Israeli regime and the US government.
NAM was founded in Belgrade in 1961 by Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesian president Sukarno, all legends of the national liberation movement, with solid anti-imperial credentials, who advocated a middle course for the developing world between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War.
Its principles are solidarity and peaceful resolution of conflicts, though it was founded as a counterweight to the superpowers, abjuring big power military alliances and pacts.
Nonetheless, NAM represents nearly two-thirds of UN members and 55% of the world's population. At the seventh summit held in New Delhi in 1983, the movement described itself as "history's biggest peace movement", placing equal emphasis on disarmament.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, NAM sponsored a campaign for restructuring commercial relations between developed and developing nations, the New International Economic Order and its cultural offspring, the New World Information and Communication Order, which still has relevance today.
The movement is publicly committed to sustainable development and the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, making international financial decision-making more democratic, easing poor countries' debt burden, making trade fairer and increasing foreign aid.
By hosting the conference and taking on the responsibility for NAM leadership, Iran is clearly intent on injecting new life into the most important anti-imperialist international organization.
NAM summits have traditionally been held every few years. Of the last three, two were hosted by Muslim countries - Malaysia (2003) and Egypt (2009). The 2006 conference was hosted by Cuba. The new prominence of Muslim countries in NAM's affairs shows that the Muslim world has begun to take on the mantle of third world solidarity once claimed by the socialist world.
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5 September 2012 - 07:59
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed Iran's success in hosting the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) despite western propaganda, and said that Iran will seek new organizational structures for the NAM.
