NEW DELHI, India Foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement began arriving Saturday for a two-day meeting expected to ‘condemn superpower rivalry, terrorism and U.S policy toward Libya.
The foreign ministers of Cuba and Mauritius arrived in New Delhi for the conference of the 101-nation group. Fifty-one ministers will attend the meeting, to be opened Wednesday by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Officials said security will be tight. Police have been on alert against possible attacks and authorities Said the precautions will continue throughout the NAM meeting.
Indian Foreign Secretary of State K.R, Narayanan said India had developed draft declarations for the meeting, including the first proposed NAM condemnation of terrorism.
“The non-aligned nations would be exhorted not to encourage or support terrorist activities and to resist this threat to peace and security in the world,” he told reporters last week.
Narayanan said the draft would condemn the “use of force or threat of the use of force.
The declaration identifies nuclear disarmament as the “central issue facing the world today,” Narayanan said,
The draft is expected to criticize the United States for refusing to join a Soviet nuclear test moratorium, which Moscow ended Friday after the Reagan administration refused repeated calls to honor the ban,
News reports have said India’s draft declarations blamed superpower “politics of domination and intervention” for increased international tensions and expressed “grave” concerns over Reagan’s Strategic Defense program popularly known as “Star Wars.”
Narayanan said the draft contained the same plans as proposed at the 1983 NAM summit in New Delhi for providing political solutions to disputes involving member nations the fran-Iraq War, the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia, the Soviet occupation of ‘Afghanistan and the Middle East conflict,
The meeting, however, is not ‘expected to produce resolutions to ‘any of the conflicts, officials said.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 18, 1986
