Actualité - Negotiators Agree Big Time

The experts' negotiations at this stage of the 14th Non Aligned Countries Movement Summit made strides Tuesday with significant agreement on most of the thematic positions, official sources confirm.

The conference spokesperson, Cuban Assistant Foreign Minister Abelardo Moreno, told press that the program is proceeding fluidly and successfully among the 114 delegations (of 116 NAM members).

The Political Committee has concluded its examination of texts pertaining to global and regional problems Moreno said, adding that all the paragraphs condemning actions against NAM states were approved, including those relative to Venezuela, Cuba and other nations submitted to aggression.

He noted that similarly, the Economic Committee has finished its review of economic and development matters, and is now analyzing all questions linked to human rights.

On the theme of human rights in the Summit documents, Moreno stressed that the movement demands "the observance of all [rights] by all [countries]."

He explained they are examining individual and collective rights, as well as the "third generation" of solidarity, food, development, and such rights.

NAM considers it reprehensible to use human rights as a way to manipulate politics and pressure countries in the movement, and reject such politicizing, and any selectivity or hypocritical use, the spokesman declared.

Moreno confirmed that the Chancellery sessions will begin interactive debates Wednesday on the role of NAM given the adverse conditions in the world and the methods that should rule the Movement's activities, as well as a Ministerial Committee session on Palestine.

(Prensa Latina News Agency)