Indian Premier to attend NAM summit in Tehran
IRAN: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to
Tehran in order to attend the forthcoming summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM) in the Iranian capital in late August, Indian media say.
Singh has reportedly made the decision to pay an official
visit to the Iranian capital, IRNA reported.
Singh would be the first Indian premier to visit Iran since
a 2001 visit by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
During his stay in Tehran, the Indian prime minister would
likely discuss issues of mutual interest as well as the New Delhi-Tehran
relations in talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on July 25
that representatives from all NAM member states will be present at Tehran
summit.
The 16th summit of the NAM member states will be held
between August 26 and August 31 in the Iranian capital. PRESS TV
Iran will also assume the rotating presidency of the
movement for three years during the Tehran summit.
NAM, an international organization with 120 member states
and 17 observer countries, is considered as not formally aligned with or
against any major power bloc.
The organization was founded in the former Yugoslavia in
1961.
NAM's purpose, as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979,
is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial
integrity and security of non-aligned countries."
PRESS TV
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