NAM bureau meet begins today
Foreign Minister Dipu Moni will join other representatives of member nations of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Sharm-el-Sheik, Egypt at a NAM Coordinating Bureau meeting, which begins today.
Dipu Moni, who was in an official visit in India, yesterday left New Delhi for Egypt to attend the two-day meeting, which will prepare the members for the 16th NAM Summit Conference to be held in Tehran, Iran later this year.
The Red Sea Resort city of Sharm-El-Sheikh will host the NAM Ministerial and senior officials' meetings.
One hundred and twenty member states of the movement as well as 15 other countries will participate in the meetings in their capacity as observers with Egypt presiding over the movement's current session.
Official sources said the meeting will seek to revitalise and strengthen the NAM and to reinforce the position of the movement on priority issues of concern of developing countries.
In this light, the ministers will, among other things, discuss issues surrounding the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global issues such as the review of international law, promotion and preservation of multilateralism, follow-up to the Millennium Declaration and the outcomes of major United Nations summits and conferences, reform to the UN, disarmament, as well as international security will top the agenda.
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