By Prensa Latina,
Tehran : Top level officials from over 100 nations are defining Monday in this capital a group of documents to be presented for consideration in the 15th inter-summit ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Delegates started Sunday discussions in the plenary session and two committees, in charge of the final document of the foreign minister”s meeting, to be run July 29-30.
Addressing the opening session on behalf of the NAM presidency, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno advocated for preparing documents taken into consideration the current international situation that negatively impacts the peoples” quality of life.
Moreno said that the unprecedented escalation of oil and food prices, the worsening of poverty, the gradual death of ecosystems and the climate change crisis are threats for the human survival.
He termed as a priority to defend the Movement”s interest at the UN Security Council and the Consolidation Committee for Peace, as well as other world organizations, but without neglecting exigencies and historic principles.
Iran”s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki requested the forum to redouble efforts to solve conflicts in the member countries and preserve unity to assure an equal and solidarity world order.
Mottaki, as a host of the 15th inter-summit ministerial conference of the NAM, exhorted officials to honor foundational principles of that forum and put them into practice.
He noted that since the 14th summit of heads of states and governments held in Havana in 2006, new worrying challenges sparked off in several countries, obliging to reconsider commitments of the international community to solve them.