Iran invites Azeri leader to NAM summit

During a Thursday meeting with Aliyev in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, Iran’s Minister of Education Hamidreza Haji-Babaei extended President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation to his Azeri counterpart to attend the NAM summit.

Aliyev expressed hope to participate in the significant international summit in Tehran, IRNA reported.

Earlier in the day, the Iranian minister held talks with Azeri Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov and stressed the importance of bolstering relations with Baku in all fields.

He said that the Iranian and Azeri nations enjoy enormous commonalities and should make use of bilateral potential.

The Azeri minister, for his part, called for a further expansion of ties between the two neighboring countries.

Mamedyarov hoped that Tehran and Baku would strengthen trade cooperation within the framework of the Iran-Azerbaijan Joint Economic Commission.

Iran will host the 16th summit of the NAM member states August 26-31.

The Islamic Republic will also assume the rotating presidency of the movement for three years during the Tehran summit.

NAM, an international organization with 120 member states and 17 observer countries, is considered as not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.

NAM’s purpose, as stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979, is to ensure “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries.”

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