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NAM summit closes :
Consensus on promoting solidarity
EGYPT: The 15th Non- aligned Movement (NAM) Summit was wrapped
up here Thursday, after member countries reached consensus on promoting
solidarity and ratified documents on jointly addressing international
and regional issues.
At the two-day summit held in this Egyptian Red Sea coastal city,
leaders from over 100 NAM countries or their representatives focused
their debate on the summit’s theme of International Solidarity for Peace
and Development.
They extensively discussed current hotspot international and regional
problems, such as the ongoing global financial crisis, climate change,
the Middle East peace process, food security, energy and nuclear issues.
The Summit admitted Argentina as NAM observer country and the World
Peace Council as its observer organization. Egyptian President Hosny
Mubarak was elected as NAM Chairperson for the following 3 years.
At a speech delivered before the Summit’s closing, Mubarak said: “The
Summit has provided new evidence of the vitality of the Non- aligned
Movement, and affirmed the significance of this massive bloc of over
half of the world’s states, as well as the importance of the values and
principles that they defend.” “The success of this Summit is not the end
of the road. We must work together, hand in hand, to follow up on its
decisions and outcomes,” he added.
The Summit signed the Sharm El Sheikh Declaration and the over
100-page Final Document.
The Document detailedly expressed NAM’s standpoints on a variety of
international and regional matters, including disarmament, international
security, peacekeeping and peace- building, human rights and democracy,
self-determination, issue of Palestinians, UN reforms, the world
financial crisis, food security, international terrorism, among others.
Meanwhile, the Declaration is regarded to be an outlined edition of
the Document, charting the course for the Movement in the future 3
years. Sharm El Sheikh, Friday, Xinhua |
