Foreign Secretary Abdul Ghafoor departs to Baku for NAM Summit

Foreign Secretary Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed has left for Baku, Azerbaijan, to take part in the Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).

The Ministerial Meeting of the 18th NAM Summit is set to take place from 21 to 22 October. The NAM Summit will officially be held from 25-26 this month.

Azerbaijan is assigned to Chair the Summit for the next three years.

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The NAM was founded in 1961 with 120 nations that does not lean to either of the superpowers on the globe.