1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting

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1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting
Mediterranean member states of the NAM in yellow and dark green (Yugoslavia)
Host country Malta
Date10-11 September 1984
CitiesValletta
ChairAgatha Barbara
(President of Malta)

The 1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting (Maltese: Laqgħa Ministerjali tal-Pajjiżi Mediterranji Mhux Allinjati) held in Valletta, Malta on 10 and 11 September 1984 was the first ever ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned countries from the Mediterranean region.[1] The idea of the organizer was to host an event with restricted number of participants from the Mediterranean basin where common concerns will be addressed.[2] At the time, the group included Southern Mediterranean and Levantine Arab countries and only three European Non-Aligned countries of Malta, Cyprus and SFR Yugoslavia.[3] The meeting concluded that freedom of the seas in a closed sea like Mediterranean should be exercised for peaceful purposes without military naval deployment, especially by non-Mediterranean countries.[4] The event was envisaged as a preliminary collective effort by the countries concerned at the achievement of the peace in the region.[5] The following meeting of the group was organized in 1987 on the Brijuni Islands in the Yugoslav constituent Socialist Republic of Croatia.[2] The final document of the meeting was subsequently reaffirmed by the NAM movement as a whole when at the 1985 Luanda foreign ministers meeting the final document of that meeting called states of the world to respect the 1984 Valletta Declaration.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Letter dated 21 September 1984 from the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General". United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine. 27 September 1984. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b Alberto Bin (University of Malta) (January 1997). "Mediterranean Diplomacy. Evolution and Prospects". Jean Monnet Working Papers in Comparative and International Politics. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  3. ^ Vukadinović, Radovan (1986). "Strategije sigurnosti mediteranskih zemalja". Croatian Political Science Review. 23 (1): 121–130.
  4. ^ "Letter dated 26 March 1986 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council" (PDF). United Nations. 26 March 1985. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  5. ^ "COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING, THE NASSAU COMMUNIQUE, OCTOBER 1985, COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT, CABLE BEACH HOTEL, NASSAU, 22 OCTOBER 1985". Australian Government. 22 October 1983. Retrieved 30 January 2022.
  6. ^ Yearbook of the United Nations. 39. 1985 (1989). United Nations Department of Public Information. 1989. p. 259. ISBN 0792305035.

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