A senior officials' meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) – a forum of 120 countries – has lauded Bangladesh's efforts and contributions to addressing different issues such as the culture of peace, SDGs, peacekeeping, peacebuilding, climate change, health and environmental, the foreign ministry has said.
These issues were documented in a declaration which would be adopted after a NAM foreign ministers' meeting on Wednesday-Thursday, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Through this document, the foreign ministers of NAM member states called for creating necessary conditions for the Rohingyas' voluntary, safe, dignified and sustainable return to their homeland, Myanmar.
They also called for the early and full implementation of the arrangement between Bangladesh and Myanmar.
NAM is a forum of 120 countries not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. It is the largest grouping of states worldwide after the UN.
Bangladesh joined NAM in 1973 within two years of independence.
Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman joined the summit the same year in Algiers.
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen, speaking during the negotiation for the finalization of the NAM Summit document for the declaration, said: “The languages proposed by Bangladesh in the NAM Summit document reflect our long-standing commitment to multilateralism as well as foreign policy dictum of Bangabandhu, ‘Friendship to all malice toward none,' which is reflective of the core principles of NAM.”