The Non-Aligned Movement (
NAM), with
120 member states from
across the globe, issued a statement to condemn the Wednesday assassination of an Iranian university professor and scientist.
Iran was supposed to
host the 16th summit of
the Non-Aligned Movement, but instead it was held in
Bali, Indonesia in
May 0f 2011.
The document that was adopted during the conference
expressed concern over several
issues, including paragraph 205.14 of the (pdf)
Bali Final, which condemns
terrorist attacks against Iranian scientists.
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“The Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau, while reaffirming that terrorism in all a forms and manifestations constitutes one of a many
critical threats to general assent and security, condemns in a strongest terms a militant conflict that occurred in Tehran, a Islamic Republic of
Iran, on 11 Jan 2012, causing a genocide of another distinguished Iranian scientist, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, and a damage of a series of others,” NAM
pronounced in a matter on Thursday.
Purpose of the Non-Aligned Movement:
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The purpose of the organization as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979 is to ensure 'the national independence, sovereignty, territorial
integrity and security of non-aligned countries' in their 'struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism, and all forms of
foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics.'
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