Iran To Host NAM Summit Meeting In Summer : Mehmanparast

Tehran, May 1, IRNA – Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that the Iranian capital will host the 16th summit meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) member countries in late summer. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press briefing, Ramin Mehmanparast said the NAM preliminary meeting is to convene in Egypt by mid May. Mehmanparast said the Islamic Republic of Iran will receive the NAM rotating chairmanship for the next three-year tenure. The NAM, with its 188 members, has great capacity for reviewing the global crises and influencing the international events, said the FM spokesman. He expressed hope that the Tehran summit meeting would help remove the existing global discrimination and injustice./end