“NAM Chief’s Friends” Most Important Outcome of Summit

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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian considered Saturday that one of the major outcomes of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit was the establishment of a connection of “NAM chief’s friends” by Egypt, Iran, and Venezuela in order to solve the Syrian crisis.

As he reassured his country’s support to a political and diplomatic solution for the Syrian crisis, Abdullahian said that “the Non-Aligned Movement has abandoned its goals and fundamental principles in the past 50 years.”

Mehr news agency further quoted the Iranian official as saying that “Iran’s presidency of the movement, which will last for three years, should harmonize with the international and regional developments, and new strategies should be put to achieve the movement’s fundamental principles and goals.”

Abdullahian pointed out “the effort made by the enemies to change the NAM Summit’s venue and prevent some sides from participating in it, like the Egyptian president and the UN secretary general,” adding that “it is the first time in the NAM’s history that half of the members attend, and this indicated that the Islamic Republic is not isolated from the world.”

On the other hand, the Iranian deputy foreign minister denied that the NAM summit’s assembly in Tehran gave Iran a political status, considering that “Iran already has a high political and intellectual status, in addition to its resisting stance against the Zionist enemy and international domination.”

In this context, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Alaeddin Boroujerdi indicated that 80% of the Egyptian president’s speech in the summit met with Iran’s views.

Speaking to Mehr news agency, Boroujerdi quoted an American analyst as saying that four out of five of the points that Mohammad Mursi tackled at the summit met with Iran, and the only opposing point was the Syrian file.

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