Tehran, Aug 28, IRNA

Senior experts meetings of the XIV NAM Summit ended here Monday, and the summit document would be delivered to NAM foreign ministers on Tuesday.

According to IRNA, the IRI Foreign Ministry and XIV NAM Summit Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast who was speaking on the sidelines of the NAM Senior Experts Conference held at IRIB Conferences Center said, "The initial draft of the XIV NAM Summit document was inclusive of 688 articles in three chapters, which was surveyed by two committees of the summit, namely the political and the economic committees of the NAM Senior Experts."

He added, "Relying on the existing mutual understanding and the management applied in the conference, the committees' ratifications were received on Sunday and today, Monday, too, the Senior Experts were informed by the Secretary General of the Experts Conference of ratifications, which were confirmed by the entire senor experts, and thus the work of these experts came to its end."

Mehmanparast pointed out that the Secretary General of the Senior Experts Conference would deliver the draft prepared by them to the NAM Foreign Ministers Conference, reiterating, "The presence of very high ranking delegations at the NAM Conference is all by itself very noticeable, and promises that we would be witnesses to greater activities of the NAM members in accordance with the initial founders of the movement in the framework of the proposed document."

He reiterated, "On this basis, we hope reforms would take place in the process of the NAM activities so that from now on this movement would also support respecting the territorial integrity of the countries."

Mehmanparst expressed hope, "The prepared document at the 16th conference after being confirmed by the heads of the NAM member countries would be turned into a document that would during the management of the Islamic Republic of Iran and relying on the participation of the entire member countries, lead to the manifestation of the entire demands of the NAM members.

He referred to the motto of the ongoing conference, "Sustainable Peace under the Umbrella of World Management" pointing out, "We hope this motto would be materialized. We have always been stressing the need for establishment of peace and justice at global level, and this would be achieved only based on public participation of all countries and ending the totalitarian tendencies of a few world powers."

The Non-Aligned Movement, the rotating presidency of which was conferred to Iran on August 26, is a major international organization comprising 120 member states that represent the political, cultural, economic and social interests of the developing world.

The movement which is consisted of two third of the UN member states was established in 1961 in Belgrade and despite the fact that the majority of its members are developing nations, many of them play a defining and determining role in such strategic regions as the Middle East, North Africa and Latin America.

Over the past weeks, Iranian President has been sending envoys to different NAM member countries to invite their heads of state and government to attend the forthcoming summit in Tehran.

The latest NAM summit was held in Egypt's Sharm al-Sheikh from July 11-16, 2009 and Tehran will host representatives from 100 of the 120 countries in the forthcoming gathering.

Now, Iranian officials expect that a great number of the member states will attend the summit in high levels and it goes without saying that the presence of so many officials from different world countries in the conference which will be hosted by Tehran may not be pleasant and favorable to those who want to see Iran's regional dominance and international influence derailed.

NAM enjoys remarkable capacities for shaping a new global order based on respecting the rights of the developing nations which are more often than not treated indecorously by the hegemonic powers. With the active cooperation of the member states, NAM can realize its innumerable potentialities and extricate itself from the domination of the superpowers that are usually after exploiting the precious natural resources of these countries.

The Non-Aligned Movement is said to be the largest international organization after the United Nations and it has the capability of effectively influencing the international developments if its member states take its mechanisms seriously and are convinced that their participation in the process of decision-making and collaboration will help them have a say in the global political and economic equations. They can assist each other in diplomatic lobbying in important events such as the UN General Assembly, selecting the non-permanent members of the Security Council and making decisions in the UN Human Rights Council as well as contributing to the progress of entities such as the African Union and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Although non-association and non-alliance with the western and eastern superpowers is a characteristic feature of the members of the movement, emerging superpowers such as China, Brazil and Mexico serve NAM as observing members.

Moreover, countries such as India, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and South Africa which have strong ties with the United States and are members of the G20 group (the bloc of 20 world major economies) are among the NAM member states.

Iran's presidency over such a prominent international organization comes while the European Union has just put into effect its intended oil embargo against Iran, banning the European states from importing oil from Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer. At the same time, the United States has imposed a fresh round of sanctions against Iran's banking sector, penalizing the foreign banks which have financial transactions with Iranian counterparts.

The United States, Israel and Europe are pressing Iran on multiple fronts so as to isolate the country and undermine its regional clout: from propagating falsehood and mendacity about Iran and Iranians in the mainstream media to launching malicious cyber attacks against the computers operating in Iran's nuclear facilities, passing anti-Iranian resolutions in the UN Security Council, relentlessly murdering the country's nuclear scientists, imposing hard-hitting financial sanctions and beating the drum of war.

However, Iran has persistently and determinedly tolerated all the hardships and is now foiling the mischievous plots one after another.

The upcoming NAM summit in Tehran is an invaluable opportunity for Iran to show its diplomatic prowess and demonstrate that it's impossible for the bullying powers and their stooges to isolate it.

Although it's an unwritten convention that not all the heads of state will take part in such summits as NAM, it can be predictable that the important event which will take place with the participation of several high-ranking officials from different world countries will mark the spring of Iranian diplomacy and a backbreaking blow to those who want to find Iran isolated, secluded and fragile. The event will unquestionably testify that Iran has not become that lonely and friendless country which the United States and its lackeys want.

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