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Iran invites UAE president to upcoming NAM summit in Tehran


Iran has invited the president of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, to take part in the forthcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran.

During a meeting at Al Rawdah Palace in the Emirati city of Al-Ain on Sunday, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi extended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation to the UAE leader.

The 16th summit of the NAM member states will be held between August 26 and August 31 in the Iranian capital.

Iran will 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. The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the UN members and contain 55% 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 non-aligned countries.”

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