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NAM summit begins in Jakarta today
JAKARTA Aug 31. The six day 10th Non Aligned Move ment summit begins here to morrow to reaffirm the commitment of the member stales to strengthen the movement achieve economic security of the developing countries and establish peace and under standing among them, reports USS
The heads of state and government of the 106-member Movement have been meeting at the Jakarta Convention Centre in this beautiful city after three years with the real Isatton that world needed the NAM despite the unipolar world for their own better ment.
Indonesian President Soe harto. who Is the chairman of the 10th NAM summit, will open tlx meeting al the Centre at 9 am
Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia who arrived here this afternoon to attend the aummlt. will lead the Bangladesh delegation com prising Foreign Minister ASM Mostafizur Rahman. State Minister for Forest and Environment Gayeshar Chandra Roy and Foreign Secretary* Reaz Rahman
Prime Miniater Begum Khaleda Zia. talking to BSS correspondent on board the Biman flight, said this summit would provide an opportunity to the highest leaderships of the Third World to reinforce the rot of the movement In the emerging new world order and to forge a stronger unity among the member states
She also hoped that the summit would play an effective and substantial role in shaping the course of International relations.
Begum Khaleda Zia is ex.-pected to deliver her speech as the second speaker at the summit tomorrow.
The 10th NAM summit will gather representatives from 95 of Its 106 members as well as dozerp of observers, guest countries, and international and regional organisations, summit sources said
The summit will see the re-I turn of Cambodia to the movement after Its seat was vacated tn 1979 due to ctvil war United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali will attend the inaugural session tomorrow lending prestige to the summit and the movement
Indonesia has spent more than 200 million US dollars lo ensure a successful summit
The proceedings at the summit will be translated into four International languages — English. French. Arabic and Spanish. _
Some 15.000 .security per sonnel have beeiit deployed to protect the heads of the state and the governments
Summit sources said the six-day congregation of Third World leaders will discuss problems in which all members share an Interest such as economic cooperation environmental pro eepon. etc
Reuter adds Heads of state and government began arriving In Jakarta hoping to sei off on a new course now that East-
West bloc confrontation is over But many key leaders stayed away.
A bruising dispute over Yugoslavia's membership -eventually shelved to let Belgrade's delegation attend the summit occupied ministers all over the weekend, forcing them to run into a third day to discuss the Middle East. South Africa and Somalia
On the Gulf. Malaysia sharply criticised the US-led atr exclusion zone imposed over mainly Shiite southern Iraq. It urged the 108-member movement strongly to oppose the "high-handedness' of Washington and its a flies
Malaysian Foreign Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told the Foreign Ministers preparatory meeting the no fly" zone was a "flagrant contravention of all accepted international norms and prac ticcs
Delegates said that while most members had condemned Iraq s Invasion of Kuwait tn 1990. there was widespread unease over the zone
It's okay to kick Iraq out of Kuwait but It s not alright to divide Iraq. It s an encourage ment for the disintegration of states. the Comoros Islands UN Ambassador Amini All Moutnin told reporters
On tfv/ Arab-Israeli dispute. Indones*' i Foreign Minister All Alal*‘ said members felt the replacement of Israel's hard line Likud Government by a Labour leadership had not led to progress at Middle East peace talks which resumed last week tn Washington
There was a consensus that
so far the talks have not mwed much beyond procedure and that substantively there Is really not much give In Israel’s position. " he told Journalists.
But Foreign Minister Amr Moussa of E|typt. which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979. expressed optimism about the talks, calling the attitude of the new Israeli admin istratfon much different’ from its predecessor's.
The Non-Aligned Movement is seeking to assert Itself as a political and economic lobby for developing countries with an independent voice tn would affairs while getting away from the often stale anti-Imperialist rhetoric that marked it tn the
The most important thing that we could do tn Jakarta would be to chart the future role of the Non-Aligned Movement In. a changing world. "Moussa told a news conference we have to be as fast as the developments in the world
But even though the movement has become bigger than ever before, many leaders arc staying at home because of what officials described as domestic problems
Prominent absentees include Cuba's Fidel Castro. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Iraqi President Sad dam Hussein, Nigeria* Ibra him Babanglda and Algeria's All Kall
Also missing will be Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, who startled the last summit in Belgrade In 1989 by turning up with his own tents, a herd of camels and bevy of women bodyguards