Ministerial Meeting of 13th NAM Summit Opens

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Ministerial Meeting of 13th NAM Summit Opens

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The 114-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has a duty to change this world order to ensure the continued primacy of the multilateral process in the affairs of nations, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Saturday morning.

At the opening of the Ministerial Meeting of 13th NAM Summit here, he said unilateralism was inimical to the interests of NAM, the second largest grouping after the United Nations (UN).

It (unilateralism) "must strongly be resisted lest we find ourselves marginalized and our aim of creating a more just and secure world unfulfilled," he said.

This summit meeting is being held at a critical juncture in the history of the movement, he added. The current "state of affairs brings us to the brink of conflict -- a conflict which the people of the world have loudly and clearly opposed," he noted.

Founded in 1961, NAM holds its summit meeting every three years to provide member states with a platform to address diplomatic, economic, developmental and social issues of the day.

The 13th NAM Summit opened with a senior officials meeting on Thursday and Friday, followed by the ministerial meeting on Saturday. Heads of state and government of NAM will meet on Monday and Tuesday.

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