NAM members urged to discuss issue of Myanmar's Muslims at NAM summit

President of Malaysia International Movement for a Just World (JUST) Chandra Muzaffar has urged participants of the upcoming 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran to raise the issue of massacre of Muslims in Maynmar.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - According to a report Monday by Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA), Muzaffar called on members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in NAM to discuss the ongoing violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and try to find a diplomatic way out of the crisis.

Criticizing the ongoing ethnic conflicts and torture of Muslims in Myanmar, he said that members of the ASEAN in NAM should take a joint stand against the ongoing brutality against Muslims during their discussions in the summit which is to be held in the Iranian capital from August 30-31.

Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, Laos and Brunei are members of the ASEAN who are also among NAM member states.

The experts meeting of the 16th NAM summit was officially started in Tehran Sunday morning with a speech by Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi. Some 110 delegates are attending the two-day meeting.

The experts meeting will be followed by the meeting of NAM foreign ministers on August 28-29 while the summit is to be held on August 30-31.

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