MAY 27-30, 2006 : (MALAYSIA : NON-ALIGNED NATIONS MINISTERS MEET —See VENEZUELA, CUBA, IRAN, SUDAN, SYRIA) Set against the backdrop of decolonization and an international environment split between Cold War superpowers, both weak and newly independent states formed a bloc that became known as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). While essentially contradictory from its inception, it was not until the collapse of the U.S.S.R. and the Warsaw Pact that NAM became largely irrelevant in a seemingly tranquil and unipolar world.
However, contemporary attempts to challenge America’s global leadership have caused the organization to drastically improve its standing. Between the 27th and 30th of May, the foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned countries met in Putrajaya, Malaysia.
A 60-page “Final Document” produced at the recent meeting in Malaysia is worth exploring as it plainly illustrates both the ideology and goals of this increasingly influential organization. “Terrorism,” the document notes in a statement likely aimed at the United States and Israel, “should not be equated with the legitimate struggle of people’s under colonial or alien domination and foreign occupation.”
Palpably referring to the Bush administration, the NAM document affirms that among their objectives is to “oppose and condemn the categorization of countries as good and evil based on unilateral and unjustified criteria, and the adoption of the doctrine of pre-emptive attack.”
The document also denounces the “politically motivated” promotion of democracy and the imposition of “unilateral economic sanctions,” while defending such member nations as Cuba, Iran, Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela.
Perhaps most egregious of the stated methods of NAM is the call for solidarity with member states that have come under international pressure. Clearly a central subject of this pronouncement is the Islamic Republic of Iran. In fact, Tehran’s influence was largely on display with the following call to:(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...The Return of the Non-Aligned Movement Robert T. McLean The American Spectator ^ | TUES 6/27/2006
Within that HSA empire [See UN OIL FOOD SCANDAL {See UN "ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS"} ], one company in particular stands out: A trading house called Pacific Interlink, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Abdul Rahman Hayel Saeed [See YEMEN, MIGA {INVOLVED IN UN OIL FOR FOOD, LINKED TO LUGANO CELL (See YOUSEF M NADA, AL QAEDA FINANCIER AHMED IDRIS NASREDDIN , IRAQI AHMED TOTONJI, ALI GHALEB HIMMAT) } ] also sits on Pacific Interlink's board of directors.
From leaked copies of secret U.N. oil-for-food records, it appears that Pacific Interlink alone accounted for more than half the HSA Group's sales of relief supplies to Saddam, with contracts for such goods as soap, ghee and construction materials totaling at least $246 million.
Pacific Interlink also belonged to the select set of companies chosen by Saddam and approved by the United Nations as authorized to buy Iraqi oil under oil-for-food — though whether Pacific Interlink actually got any of Saddam's fat oil contracts is something the United Nations has so far managed to keep secret.
----- "Possible Saddam-Al Qaeda Link Seen in U.N. Oil-for-Food Program," Friday, September 17, 2004 By Claudia Rosett and George Russell http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132682,00.html