Delegates walk to the venue of the 15th
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a Red Sea resort
city in Egypt, July 16, 2009. The 15th NAM summit closed here Thursday,
with the approval of a final document and a declaration calling for
solidarity among member states to address global threats and challenges
and promote world peace and development. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
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By Yu Zhixiao, Yang Jingzhong
SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, July 16 (Xinhua) -- 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.
Delegates leave the venue after the
closing of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh,
a Red Sea resort city in Egypt, July 16, 2009. The 15th NAM summit closed
here Thursday, with the approval of a final document and a declaration
calling for solidarity among member states to address global threats and
challenges and promote world peace and development. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
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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.
Staff members do the preparation work at the lobby of the summit hall of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on July 14, 2009. The 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit will kick off on Wednesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort city. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua) Photo Gallery>>>
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.
According to the Declaration, leaders of NAM
countries reiterate their strong commitment to the purposes and the principles
of the UN Charter and international laws.
Soldiers stand guard at the gate of the
venue of the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a
Red Sea resort city in Egypt, July 16, 2009. The 15th NAM summit closed
here Thursday, with the approval of a final document and a declaration
calling for solidarity among member states to address global threats and
challenges and promote world peace and development. (Xinhua/Wang Jianhua)
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The leaders are determined to revitalize and
reinvigorate NAM's role and influence as the principal political platform
representing developing countries in multilateral fora, in particular the United
Nations, the Declaration says.
They vow to enhance the strengthening and
revitalization progress of the Movement through concrete measures, at all
levels, and in different multilateral fora, and to maximize the ability of NAM
to deal with the current rapidly evolving global situations, crises and
challenges, it added.
The two-day First Ladies Summit, which was parallel
to the NAM Summit, was also ended here Thursday, with an aim to seek ways to
strengthen women's role in crisis management.
First ladies of NAM leaders and female
representatives of some international organizations attended the gathering,
which was a platform for NAM's first ladies to express their views on a series
of issues.
First Lady of Egypt Suzanne Mubarak, who chaired the
women's summit, said women are the most negatively and disproportionately
impacted by these interconnected challenges, especially in developing counties.
She called for giving women more chances to empower
and enable them to stimulate positive changes in society.
Founded in September 1961, NAM now groups 118 member
states, 17observer countries and 10 observer organizations.
The Movement, which includes nearly two-thirds of UN
member states and comprises 55 percent of the world population, devotes itself
to striving for the interests of developing countries all over the world.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH,
Egypt, July 16 (Xinhua) -- As the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
wrapped up here Thursday, NAM countries have demonstrated again their
determination to play a bigger role in the world arena.
During the two-day summit, the grouping of pan-developing
countries called for closer solidarity among member states to address global
threats and challenges and promote world peace and development. Full story
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt,
July 16 (Xinhua) -- Indian and Pakistani prime ministers on Thursday agreed to
continue bilateral dialogues during a brief meeting on the fringes of the 15th
summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh.
The meeting between Manmohan Singh of India and Yousuf
Raza Gilani of Pakistan was widely expected to raise hopes of relaunching the
stalled peace talks between the two South Asian arch-foes. Full story
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, July 16 (Xinhua) -- When
founding fathers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) forged it and chartered its
course 48 years ago, they perhaps could hardly imagine the dramatic changes
happening to the world in the following five decades.
Leaders or their representatives of 118 NAM member states
gathered in this sunny Egyptian Red Sea resort over the past two days to dig out
a new road for the future development of NAM, which faces numerous fresh
challenges such as the global financial crisis, nuclear proliferation, energy
shortage, food security, among others. Full story
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, July 16
(Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, head of the Chinese
delegation to the 15th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit held in Egypt, said on
Thursday China will continue to support NAM as always.
"As one of the developing countries, China will continue to support NAM as
always for it to play a role in international affairs and speak in one voice on
issues related to the common interests of developing countries," said He. Full story
