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<\/a><\/p>\nPresident of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev attended the opening ceremony of the Conference.<\/p>\n
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Prior to the opening ceremony participants posed together for photos.<\/p>\n
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Jorge Arreaza Montserrat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, chair of the Non-Aligned Movement, expressed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s support for the Non-Alignment Movement’s activities and conveyed his greetings to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and conference participants.<\/p>\n
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The conference participants observed a minute`s silence to commemorate the presidents and leaders who died since the last Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in the Venezuelan city of Margarita.<\/p>\n
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President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev made a speech at the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n
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The event continued with the voting to elect chairman of the Conference.<\/p>\n
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Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov was elected as chairman of the Ministerial Conference.<\/p>\n
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The Non-Aligned Movement participating states, representatives of the observer states and international organizations, as well as countries and institutions invited as special guests are taking part in the Mid-Term Ministerial Conference.<\/p>\n
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The Non-Aligned Movement, which plays an important role in maintenance of the international peace and security, includes 120 states. 17 state and 10 international organizations have an observer status.<\/p>\n
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In 2011, Azerbaijan joined the movement at the 16th Ministerial Conference held in Bali. In 2019, Azerbaijan will host the 18th Summit of the NAM and will chair the movement in 2019-2022.<\/p>\n
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AZERTAC<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The opening ceremony of the 18th Mid-Term Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) titled \u201cPromoting international peace security for sustainable development\u201d has been held at Baku Congress Center. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slideranons"],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/1905.az\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/15229200622917614602_1000x669.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1905.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"