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Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau
Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau
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NAM Coordinating Bureau meeting opens in Havana
đź“… 15 May 1978Foreign ministers met to coordinate positions ahead of the 1979 summit, including on Palestine and liberation struggles. The meeting showed how NAM used regular diplomatic machinery to amplify...
Havana ministerial communiqué addresses Palestine and decolonization
📅 20 May 1978The Coordinating Bureau’s final communiqué called for Palestinian rights and opposition to occupation and colonialism. Such statements strengthened international advocacy, though they did not...
NAM Coordinating Bureau’s Algiers meeting addresses Namibia
📅 16 April 1981The Bureau met amid South Africa’s attempt to install an interim administration in Namibia. Members pressed the Security Council to reject the move and reaffirmed support for Namibian...
NAM holds an extraordinary ministerial meeting on Palestine
📅 5 April 1982The Coordinating Bureau met after Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to organize political and practical support for Palestinian self-determination under the PLO. NAM sought to translate solidarity into...
NAM ministers meet in Nicosia over the invasion of Lebanon
đź“… 15 July 1982The Coordinating Bureau convened an extraordinary session after a call from Yasser Arafat. Ministers demanded Israeli withdrawal and sought to strengthen support for Palestinian rights and the PLO.
NAM coordinating bureau meets during the UN General Assembly
đź“… 23 September 2013Foreign ministers coordinated positions on Palestine, Syria, disarmament and development. Such meetings kept the movement active between summits and gave smaller states a forum for collective...
NAM Coordinating Bureau ministerial meeting convenes in Baku
📅 5 July 2023Ministers met to coordinate the movement’s positions and prepare the transition to Uganda’s chairmanship. They addressed Palestine, development and international tensions, keeping collective diplomacy...