“All 120 member states of the movement will participate in the Tehran summit. However, the main question is how many of them will take part at the level of heads of state,” Salehi told reporters on the sidelines of a Cabinet session on Wednesday.
The minister noted that usually 30-40 percent of member states send high-ranking officials to such meetings.
The 16th summit of the NAM member states will be held August 26-31 in the Iranian capital, Tehran. Iran will also assume the rotating presidency of the movement for three years during the summit.
NAM, an international organization with 120 member states and 17 observer countries, is considered as not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
The organization was founded in the former Yugoslavia in 1961. NAM’s purpose, as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979, is to ensure “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries.”
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