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Pres
ident Thabo Mbeki has called upon the Non Aligned Movement
(Nam) members to confront and address key challenges that face
their countries.
Addressing the 14th Nam Ministerial Meeting in Durban yesterday,
Mbeki said poverty, underdevelopment and international terrorism
were the main impediments to the Nam objectives for
development.
He said the challenges of poverty and underdevelopment that
continued to affect millions of people ought to be addressed within
the Nam and the United Nations context.
"We as Nam members do not need to continuously repeat what we have
agreed on previously but to go ahead and see what we need to do
next," the President said.
More than 1 400 delegates from various countries are attending the
14th Nam Ministerial and AASROC Conferences that end this
week.
Mbeki called on Nam members to put more effort into promoting
international peace and stability.
"As member countries we need to achieve peace and stability to
oversee the restructuring of global power, political, economic and
social power and this could only be achieved within a global
context," the President said.
Mbeki said countries needed to work together to confront challenges
within a global context, such as the conflicts in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), Somalia and Sudan.
“We need to ensure that we strengthen our relations among
ourselves and work together. The strengthening of the South-South
relations, the strengthening of regional organisations and
decisions must be taken to strengthen organs such as the African
Union, the Arab League, the Caricom and the Nam," he said.
He called on the United Nations and Nam members to act swiftly to
bring peaceful solutions to the Iraq, Palestine and Israel
conflicts.
"Nam countries need to find common agreements and positions to
bring the context within agreed goals and objectives. We should as
Nam make assessments of our conferences to check on principle our
results and what we need to do and whether our decisions make
impact on the lives of millions of people that we represent," the
President said.
Mbeki said among them would be the Millennium Development Goals
that were aimed at reducing poverty and inequality through
channelling resources from the rich to the poor so that a large
part of the population could benefit. – BuaNews.
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