Ethiopia attends XIX NAM Ministerial Summit in Uganda

Addis Ababa, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) The State Minister of Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry, Mesganu Arega, is attending today the 19th Ministerial Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

January 17, 2024
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The meeting will be held in Kampala, Uganda, until tomorrow under the theme ‘Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Wealth’ with the objective of preparing the conditions for the Summit of Heads of State and Government, which will begin next Friday and conclude on Saturday.

At the end of the conclave, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni will become the new head of the group, a place held since 2019 by his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev.

The Mnoal is made up of 120 countries: 53 from Africa, 39 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean and two from Europe. Seventeen nations also have observer status.

Member states represent nearly two-thirds of the UN membership and 55 percent of the world’s population.

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