Armenian FM to attend NAM summit in Tehran

PanARMENIAN.Net - On August 30, Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will depart for Iran for a two-day visit to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit and meeting of the NAM Council of Foreign Ministers in Tehran.

The draft declaration to be submitted to NAM summit was earlier approved, RA MFA press service reported.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries.

The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito; India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.