Azerbaijani FM starts working visit to

5 Sentyabr 2011 17:00 | 912

Azerbaijan MFS reports that within the visit E. Mammadyarov will take part and make speech at jubilee event devoted to 50-year anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement. Within the visit to take place on 5-6 September he will also hold a number of bilateral meetings.

The first summit of the Movement was convened in Belgrade in 1961 on the initiative of then Yugoslavia, India, Egypt, Indonesia and Ghana.

The NAM unites the countries which proclaimed the foundation of their foreign policy the non-participation in military-political blocs and groups. At present, this international organization unites 119 states of the world. It includes 1 European (Belarus), 38 Asian, 53 African, 26 Latin American and Caribbean states.

Azerbaijan is among the 16 countries of the Movement observers, along with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Costa Rica, Mexico, Paraguay, Serbia, Montenegro, Tajikistan, Armenia, Ukraine, and Uruguay. The UN, African Union, Arab League, and Organisation of Islamic Conference have the same status.