NAM summit host Tehran pats itself on the back
Issue 931
- 14 Sep 2012
| 6 minute read
The summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that took place in Tehran on 30-31 August provoked a flurry of press coverage, government spin and academic debate, most of it post-event and reflective. It runs somewhat contrary to the movement’s name that almost all of the discussion has focused on who stood for Iran, and who against it – there has been scant mention of the 700-paragraph closing document, or indeed of NAM’s relevance or aims more than two decades after the end of the Cold War.
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