Iran invites Mauritanian president to attend NAM Summit

Iran extended here on Wednesday an official invitation to President Mohammed Ould Abdulaziz of Mauritania to participate in the forthcoming 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Tehran.

The letter of invitation was delivered to Mauritanian president by visiting Iranian Vice-President, Mohammad Reza Mirtajedini.

Visiting Iranian high-ranking official, who is in Mauritania for a one day visit, submitted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation letter to President Ould Abdulaziz during the meeting.

Iranian vice president and Mauritanian president conferred the latest regional and international affairs in the meeting.

The two high-ranking officials stressed also expansion of comprehensive bilateral relations in economic, industria, agricultural and technical fields.

The 16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member countries in Tehran will bring forward more steps to eliminate world problems and help the resolution of ongoing crisis in every corner of the world, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said recently in an interview with IRNA.

‘All required arrangements with regards to the NAM meeting in Tehran late summer have been made according to the scheduled timetable,” he added.

The 16th NAM summit will be held in Tehran from August 26-31.

During the NAM summit meeting, the Islamic Republic of Iran will receive the NAM rotating chairmanship for the next three-year period.

Egypt hosted the NAM ministerial meeting from May 9-10, 2012.

The Non-Aligned Movement includes 118 member states representing the interests and priorities of developing countries.

Iran will receive the rotating presidency of the movement from Egypt for three years during the Tehran summit.

Venezuela will host the 17th summit of the NAM in 2015.

NAM was founded in former Yugoslavia in 1961. The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the UN members and contain 55 percent of the world population.

NAM’s purpose as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979 is to ensure “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the non-aligned countries.”