Uganda praises Iran for its firm stance
Iran: President Yoweri Museveni has hailed Iran for its resistance
against Western pressures and insistence on its right to peaceful
nuclear energy.
'We know what is happening in Iran, too much pressure from the West,
but we are glad that you can manage' Museveni told visiting Iranian
Minister of Communication and Information Technology Reza Taqipour in
Kampala on Sunday.
He added that Uganda supports all countries trying to acquire nuclear
energy for peaceful purposes.
Taqipour, for his part, said Iran has been able to depend on itself
despite sanctions by Western powers.At the end of the meeting, Taqipour
extended Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an invitation to attend
the NAM summit due this summer in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Iran will host the 16th summit of the NAM member states between
August 26 and 31. The Islamic Republic 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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