Statement of the nonaligned nations

2006-09-18

Richard Moore

    Kim, the leader of Parliament, blamed the lack of world
    peace on the United States, saying its failure to respect
    the sovereignty of other nations has destroyed "the
    international order."
      "The U.S. is turning the Security Council into a base for
    imposing its politics," Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    complained. "Why should people live under the nuclear threat
    of the U.S.?"

How refreshing to hear truth spoken in an international conference.

    "The Security Council must reform ‹ for the sake of the
    developing world, and for the sake of the United Nations
    itself," Annan told the Nonaligned leaders.

How sad to see US-agent Annan attempting to seduce sensible leaders into the 
trap of "UN reform" -- a thin disguise for a US-dominated world government.

rkm

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Nonaligned nations blast Israel attacks
By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press Writer
Sun Sep 17, 1:57 AM ET

Representatives of 118 Nonaligned Movement nations condemned Israel's attacks on
Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the U.S.-Iran nuclear dispute in 
the final declaration Saturday of a summit that brought together some of the 
United States' staunchest foes.

The 92-page declaration also broadly condemned terrorism. But it said movements 
for self-determination and battles against foreign occupiers should not be 
considered terrorism.

And while declaring democracy to be a universal value, the movement said no one 
country or region should define it for the whole world and defended the right of
Venezuela and other countries to determine their own forms of government.

The final statements, many of which contain veiled criticisms of the U.S., were 
approved by unanimous consent after another round of speeches Saturday night by 
leaders of the movement.

"No one in the Nonaligned Movement thinks that the United States is responsible 
for all the problems, but many think that it is for some," Cuba's Foreign 
Minister Felipe Perez Roque said.

An ailing Fidel Castro was named president of the movement, but he stayed home 
on doctors' orders while acting Cuban President Raul Castro presided over the 
meeting of two-thirds of the world's nations.

The meeting brought together the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, 
Zimbabwe among other leading U.S. adversaries. Raul joined them in saying a 
bellicose America had made the world more dangerous.

North Korea's No. 2 leader, Kim Yong Nam, claimed his communist nation "would 
not need even a single nuclear weapon if there no longer existed a U.S. threat,"
and said U.S. financial sanctions have "driven the situation into an 
unpredictable phase."

Kim, the leader of Parliament, blamed the lack of world peace on the United 
States, saying its failure to respect the sovereignty of other nations has 
destroyed "the international order."

The resulting imbalance in global politics constitutes "grave threats to world 
peace and security," he said.

The United States declined an invitation to the summit and said it would have no
comment on any of the proceedings.

Many at the summit demanded the United Nations take action against U.S. veto 
power in the Security Council.

"The U.S. is turning the Security Council into a base for imposing its 
politics," Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad complained. "Why should people 
live under the nuclear threat of the U.S.?"

Some leaders tried to resolve disputes with their neighbors: Pakistani President
Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed Saturday 
to resume peace talks, and Bolivian President Evo Morales tried to reassure 
Brazilians angered by tough energy negotiations.

Others held onto hard-line positions: North Korea defended its nuclear weapons 
program, Sudan's leader rejected a U.N. peacekeeping mission for Darfur and 
Ahmadinejad insisted on Iran's right to develop nuclear energy.

The final document supported Iran's position while encouraging it to continue 
cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. nuclear 
watchdog.

Earlier on Saturday, Iraq's vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, asked the movement
for a statement calling on all countries to stop interfering in Iraq and to 
recognize the sovereignty of his nation's land and airspace. He complained that 
"life has degenerated" in his country and Iraqis are suffering because "a war 
machine has destroyed the infrastructure."

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed the Security Council must be more 
responsive to less powerful countries.

"The Security Council must reform ‹ for the sake of the developing world, and 
for the sake of the United Nations itself," Annan told the Nonaligned leaders.

The Nonaligned Movement was formed in 1961 to establish a neutral third path in 
a world divided by the United States and the Soviet Union. Cuba last hosted the 
group in Havana 27 years ago.

It was unclear whether the 80-year-old Castro will recover enough from 
intestinal surgery to guide the group for the next three years. The ailing rebel
icon met in his home with a handful of leaders including Annan and Venezuelan 
President Hugo Chavez.

Copyright © 2006 The Associated Press.
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