Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Azerbaijan

The appointment will be one of the last to be chaired by this Eurasian country, which was elected to the job in the organization’s 18th presidential appointment held here in October 2019, a three-year training that has been extended again (until 2023). to the global impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It was precisely this global health crisis that preoccupied most of Azerbaijan’s advocacy activity and holding many appointments at various levels and places, mostly virtually.

The first action in this regard was a meeting at the highest level held on May 4, 2020, immediately after the WHO declared the pandemic.

On that occasion, the participants approved a declaration entitled United Against the COVID-19 Pandemic, which expressed the determination of the Non-Aligned Countries to make an effective contribution to international efforts to address the unprecedented effects of the pandemic.

The text called for a “global response based on unity, solidarity and renewed multilateral cooperation”.

He also warned that the impact of the crisis will reflect the achievements made so far in the framework of efforts to achieve the sustainable development goals approved by the United Nations for the year 2030.

He stressed that preserving and promoting the values ​​of pluralism and international cooperation is necessary to promote peace, security, development and human rights.

In the same context, the summit condemned unilateral coercive measures against non-aligned countries, and urged the international community to take urgent and effective measures to eradicate them because they “contradict international law and the Charter of the United Nations.”

Weeks after the first high-level forum, the group’s health ministers actually discussed urgent measures to be applied against the pandemic and returned to study the issue a year later.

However, Azerbaijan’s activity on the NAM front was not limited to the COVID-19 issue, but also led various ministerial forums on foreign relations, labor, parliament and others, some of them at the UN headquarters in New York and Geneva.

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