Six decades since its establishment, the United Nations needs fundamental reforms in order to adapt to the "modern global developments", Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said during the opening ceremony of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) expert-level meeting in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Sunday. Ali Akbar Salehi said "if we accept that ...

By AFP WASHINGTON The United States said Thursday that it told Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that an upcoming summit in Iran sent a "strange signal" after Tehran reported that the UN chief would attend. Iranian state media has said that the UN chief will visit Tehran for an August 30-31 summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of 120 countries ...

Iran will host the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit late August, ISNA quoted Iranian Vice-President for International Affairs Ali Saeed-Lou as saying. Ali Saeed-Lou said "initial steps to host the meeting are being taken. Some letters of invitations have been sent for NAM members to join the summit and other letters are being sent. Iranian Foreign ...

Ahmadinejad on his 100th provincial visit to Mashhad, Khorassan Razavi prov, on May 10, made the statements, addressing a large group of local people. Referring to implementation of the second phase of the national targeted subsidy plan, he said the project was the start of a major economic development in the country. Ahmadinejad has also vowed ...

By Trend The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been charged with ensuring the security of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit meeting in Tehran, Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari said, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday. By order of the commander in chief, ensuring security of the NAM summit is instructed to IRGC, and it, together with ...

Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri, the deputy chief of the Islamic republic's Armed Forces, said "the Non-Aligned Movement members' volition must create an atmosphere to influence the United Nations and revise the veto right of the five permanent members of the Security Council." General Masoud Jazayeri said the veto right of major powers in the ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei will address the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran. Ayatollah Khamenei delivered a historical speech at the 8th NAM summit in 1986 when he was the president of the Islamic Republicof Iran. Today, world powers rule, interfere, pass judgment and unilaterally determine economic ...

By World Bulletin Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast confirmed to state-run Press TV that only Abbas was invited to represent Palestine. Iran's foreign minister informed his counterpart in the Palestinian Authority that Tehran had not invited Gaza premier Ismail Haniyeh to the Non-Aligned summit this week. FM Riyad al-Malki ...

By Fox News TEHRAN, Iran Iran opened a world gathering of self-described nonaligned nations Sunday with a slap at the U.N. Security Council and an appeal to rid the world of nuclear weapons even as Tehran faces Western suspicions that it is seeking its own atomic arms. Iran seeks to use the weeklong gathering -- capped by a two-day summit ...

By Trend The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu will take part in Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran, Iran's ambassador to OIC Hamidreza Dehghani told Mehr News Agency on Sunday. He said exact date of Ihsanolglu's arrival in Tehran is not clear, but he will arrive in Iran and meet with several ...

By Reuters (Reuters) -Iranwelcomed a group of 120 developing nations on Sunday to a summit it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world. Opening the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) meeting in Tehran, Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said he hoped for a show of solidarity against sanctions the West has imposed ...

By Trend The Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Iran on Wednesday, Ramin Mehmanparast, the spokesperson of Non-Aligned Movement's 6th summit told reporters on Sunday. According to Fars News Agency, Mehmanparast, who serves as a spokesman of Iran's Foreign Ministry, said that Iran has invited Ban Ki-moon and he ...

By Dawn.com NEW DELHI: Indias prime minister will meet Iranian leaders when he travels to Tehran to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit next week, a government official said on Saturday. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, whose country is a longtime ally of Iran, will meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...

By Trend Iran is launching cultural, industrial, scientific and other tours based on the request of each representative of Non-Aligned Movement who will take part in NAM summit in Tehran, Iranian MP Hossein Naghavi said quoting Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi. Naghavi said Salehi announced that they planned to launch several tours, including ...

By Ynet News Ismail Haniyeh yet to say whether he will attend Non-Aligned Movement Summit, which is expected to host PA President Abbas, UN chief Ban Ki-moon. Iran has invitedHamasprime minister in GazaIsmail Haniyehto attend a summit of 120 developing nations, officials said on Friday, a move that could antagonize Palestinian PresidentMahmoud ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a summit meeting of leaders of non-aligned developing nations inIrannext week, defying calls from the United States and Israel to boycott the event, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday. U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters that Ban will be in Tehran August 29-31 for ...

By Bloomberg Non-oil trade betweenIranand other members of the Non-Aligned Movement reached $43 billion in the last Iranian year that ended on March 19, the Iranian Students News Agencyreported, citing Customs Administration data. The amount accounts for 40 percent of Irans $105 billion in non-oil trade in the same period, ISNA said. The value ...

By International Business Times The upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Tehran, quite ironically, has become a stage to gauge the member nations' stand on certain international issues, though the world's largest single political coalition doesn't promise support to any major power bloc. The NAM group of nations, which consider themselves ...