The work of the ministerial meeting of foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement countries, which was held to prepare for the nineteenth summit of heads of government of the Non-Aligned Movement countries, which will be held in Kampala during the days 19-20 of January, began in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, yesterday, Wednesday.
The person in charge of running the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the Government of National Unity, Al-Taher Al-Baour, and his accompanying delegation participated in the opening session of the ministerial meeting, which will discuss many topics and issues on the agenda of the Non-Aligned Movement Summit.
Al-Baour said in his speech at the opening session that this ministerial meeting comes after more than a hundred days of violations, atrocities and war crimes witnessed by the whole world and what the Palestinian people are exposed to in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank at the hands of the brutal Zionist occupation with the support of some intern
ational powers even The number of victims in Gaza City reached approximately 23 thousand victims, seventy percent of whom were women and children, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and the extent of the destruction in the city reached more than 60 percent of the infrastructure.
He added that all of this is under the eyes of the world, which claims to protect human rights, and these measures have reached the point of genocide and exceeded all imaginations in their ugliness, and that the Zionist occupation was not satisfied with imposing a land, air and sea blockade on the Palestinian people for decades. Today, it is pursuing a clear policy with the aim of displacing them. The residents of Gaza to the neighboring areas and occupy all Palestinian lands, in flagrant violation of all human values and human rights principles that we have all ratified, and in violation of the relevant United Nations resolutions.
In his speech, Al-Baour called on all member states to unite efforts and harness capabilities to st
op the brutal aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza City and all other Palestinian territories, and to work to urgently open safe corridors for the entry of humanitarian aid and prevent attempts at forced displacement, which we categorically reject… stressing that the outcomes of this meeting, which is being held at a fateful time, must include a unified, serious and deterrent position against the tyrannical Zionist occupation.
The person in charge of running the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in the Government of National Unity pointed out that the world is going through a dangerous turning point and accelerating events are threatening international peace and security, and that the successive crises and armed conflicts that the world is witnessing today express the failure of the international bodies concerned with maintaining international peace and security, led by the Security Council, as a result of the dominance of a specific force on the decision-making mechani
sm and the policy of double standards, not to mention the unfair representation and disparity in rights and powers of its members, obstructing its reform mechanisms, and focusing the work of the international community’s bodies to serve the priorities of a few countries and implement their visions at the expense of the priorities of developing and least developed countries.
He stressed that the reform of the Security Council and Africa’s request to become a permanent member of the Security Council is evidence of the failure of the Security Council’s mechanisms, which threatens to enter into global chaos from which no one will be spared.
He explained that the difficult conditions and challenges that some of the Non-Aligned Movement countries are going through have led to negative repercussions on the economic, social and security levels, obstructing development in these countries and helping to exacerbate many negative phenomena such as terrorism, extremism, poverty, human and drug trafficking, and the growi
ng phenomenon of illegal immigration.
Al-Baour warned that the idea behind the Non-Aligned Movement will lose its strength and the purpose of its establishment if the negative role of the movement continues regarding international political developments and events. He stressed the need for the movement to play a positive role and make a noticeable difference in resolving outstanding international issues, especially those that affect priorities. International peace and security, with its resources and capabilities.
Sources in the Ugandan Foreign Ministry had stated that the upcoming Non-Aligned Summit will focus on the requirements of strengthening the movement’s role in building a world characterized by pluralism and constructive credibility in a way that enhances global peace and security and supports justice and equality among the peoples of the world.
Source: Libyan News Agency