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Mugabe In Egypt Sharm el-Sheikh Resort For Non-Aligned Movement Summit
16 July 2009
Harare — President Mugabe left Harare yesterday for the Egyptian resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh where he will join 60 other heads of state and government for the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which begins today. The President, who is accompanied by the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and senior Government officials, was seen off at the Harare International Airport by Government officials and service chiefs. Vice President Joice Mujuru will be Acting President. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is set to take over the chairmanship of the 118-member bloc from his Cuban counterpart, Cde Raul Castro. Among key issues to be discussed are the effects of the prevailing global economic crisis on developing countries, economic development, peace and security, disarmament, climate change, human rights and rule of law. Already, NAM has demonstrated that it is not about to break with tradition and has issued a scathing statement criticising the United States for its 50-year-old economic blockade on Cuba. The statement said the economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba "which runs counter to the United Nations Charter and international law, was causing huge human suffering, material losses and economic damage that have negatively impacted on the welfare of the people of the largest Caribbean island". President Castro will tomorrow present a report on the state of the organisation as well as chair debate on the current global economic and financial crisis. The summit is expected to adopt a final document, which will outline NAM's common position on various issues on its agenda and the Sharm el-Sheikh Declaration, which will focus on the development of the group itself. The Non-Aligned Movement Committee on Palestine will discuss the current situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, and adopt the Declaration on Palestine. A First Ladies' Summit will be held concurrently with the Heads of State Summit, with a general debate on "The Role of Women in Crisis Management". Foreign ministers from the 110 countries represented at the summit started preparatory meetings on Monday ahead of the Heads of State Summit that has been scheduled for today and tomorrow. Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi left earlier to attend the NAM Foreign Affairs Ministers' meeting. Addressing the opening session, Cuba's Foreign Minister, Cde Bruno Eduardo Parrilla, noted the achievements the grouping had scored in the past three years. An experts' meeting on Saturday and Sunday discussed the recent coup détat in Honduras with all representatives agreeing that the constitutionally-elected leader, President Manuel Zelaya, should be restored to office. The experts also discussed North-South and South-South co-operation, terrorism and democracy, immigration, humanitarian assistance, human trafficking, corruption, HIV and Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. This is the second time Egypt, a founder-member of the movement, is holding the summit after hosting it in 1964. Founded in September 1961, NAM now brings together 118 member states, 16 observer countries and nine observer organisations. At the first conference in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia in 1961, only 25 countries were represented. Today the bloc is the world's largest international organisation outside of the United Nations, consisting of 55 percent of the planet's population with its focus being promoting the interests of developing countries.
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