Islam Times - NAM member states seek unity, cohesion: Iran FM

Islam Times - Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) seek unity and cohesion among member states of the organization.

“In today’s meeting, the participants emphasized that [NAM] members should from now on try to make NAM viewpoints operational in the international scene by increasing cohesion and unity [among themselves],” Salehi said on the sidelines of the unveiling ceremony of the Non-Aligned Movement 2012 summit stamp in Tehran.

The top Iranian diplomat also noted that the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran is being held at a time when people of the region and the world are living in a special atmosphere.

He further stated that the Zionist regime [of Israel] is at the head of international terrorism and NAM ministerial meeting has paid special attention to international terrorism.

“All member states of the Non-Aligned Movement in today’s meeting condemned international terrorism especially state-sponsored terrorism which has been founded by the Zionist regime [of Israel],” Salehi stated.

The two-day ministerial meeting of the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit kicked off in the Iranian capital on Tuesday.

At the opening ceremony of the NAM expert-level meeting, Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement for three years. Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations Mootaz Khalil formally handed over the presidency to Iran.