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| Monday, 17 May 2004 |
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NAM plays role in Middle-East peace From Ranga Kalansooriya in Malaysia The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Thursday, took a bold decision to play a vital role in bringing lasting peace to the Middle East region including making an appeal to the United Nations to send peace keeping missions to the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem and also to set up a powerful ministerial team to conduct manoeuvring. The 10-member Ministerial Committee on Palestine of the NAM which met at Putrajaya Conventional Centre here for a one-day intensive deliberation decided to appoint a ministerial delegation headed by NAM's current Chair, Malaysia, to 'make contacts' with relevant influential parties to get the Road Map back on track and also to keep the process alive. Sri Lanka, the current Chair of the UN Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices affecting the Human Rights of the Palestine people and other Arabs of the occupied territories, extended its solidarity with the international community in finding a concrete solution to the Palestine conflict. Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was represented by the Ministry's Additional Secretary H.K.J.R. Bandara and Sri Lanka's High Commissioner to Malaysia Rosy Senanayake. "We believe that all States and their people have the right to live in peace within secure and internationally recognised borders," said the Sri Lankan statement. Opening the meeting, Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi stressed that the international community must act to ensure that Palestine people will no longer endure the grievous violations of their rights and suffer the other indignities forced upon them. The NAM Ministerial Committee also decided to convene a special meeting on Palestine in line with the next UN General Assembly Sessions. |
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