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Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 07.00 GMT |
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NAM summit
focus on global financial crises
President makes statement
today |
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President
Mahinda
Rajapaksa
will
attend
the 15th
summit
of Heads
of State
of the
Non-Aligned
Movement
that
opens in
Sharm
El-Sheikh,
today
(July
15) at
the
Maritim
Congress
Center,
which
will
focus on
issues
facing
the
developing
countries
due to
the
current
word
economic
and
financial
crises
caused
mainly
by the
policies
of the
developed
countries
of the
West.
The
gathering
117
nations
from
across
the
world
will see
the
re-endorsement
of the
basic
principles
of the
NAM.
At
today’s
NAM
summit
the
Chair of
NAM will
be
handed
over to
the
President
of the
Arab
Republic
of
Egypt,
Hosni
Mubarak
from the
President
of Cuba.
President
Rajapaksa
is due
to
address
the
general
debate
on
International
Solidarity
for
Peace
and
Development,
that
will be
held
this
afternoon.
The
topic of
the
debate
is the
Current
Global
Economic
and
Financial
Crises,
where
the
focus
will be
on new
approaches
to
addressing
these
crises
that
affect
the
entire
world
and
mainly
the
developing
countries.
The
subject
of
terrorism
and
strategies
to
combat
it will
also
feature
prominently
in the
debates
and
discussions
during
the
current
NAM
summit.
This is
the
first
NAM
summit
and
major
international
conference
attended
by
President
Rajapaksa
after
Sri
Lanka’s
successful
military
defeat
of the
LTTE and
separatist
terrorism
in the
country
after 30
years.
The
members
of NAM
will
also
discuss
the need
to
combat
terrorism
worldwide
which
safeguarding
national
sovereignty
from
outside
pressure.
Sri
Lanka’s
President
has a
very
busy
schedule
today
with
several
bilateral
meetings,
scheduled
on the
sidelines
of the
NAM
Summit.
Among
them is
a
meeting
with UN
Secretary
General
Ban Ki
moon.
Later
today
where
the
focus is
expected
to be
Sri
Lanka’s
progress
in
widening
democracy
after
the
defeat
of the
LTTE,
the
conditions
of the
IDPs in
the
North
and the
government’s
plans to
re-settle
and
rehabilitate
them in
180days
and the
assistance
that UN
can give
in the
re-settlement
and
rehabilitation
process.
President
Rajapaksa
is also
expected
to have
bilateral
talks
with the
President
of
Serbia,
Boris
Tadic
and the
Prime
Minister
of
Pakistan,
Syed
Gilam,
today.
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