All Blog Posts from World Watch

Read all 'non aligned nations' posts in World Watch

July 15, 2009 10:45 AM

Non-Aligned Movement Holds Summit

(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
World leaders from more than a hundred countries with the Non-Aligned Movement opened their 15th summit in the Sinai resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Wednesday to discuss global peace and try to find a joint action to ward off the fallout of the international financial crisis on their developing economies.

Cuban President Raul Castro, whose country has been a key member of the movement — billed as the largest gathering of nations outside the U.N. General Assembly — called in his inaugural speech for a new world financial order to protect developing nations, which was "hit the hardest" by the financial crisis.

Read full post…

Tags:
castro ,
mubarak ,
non aligned nations
Topics:
World Watch

Exclusive Webshow

Author Thomas Friedman on Obama's Afghanistan plan and the war on terror. Watch Now

About World Watch

Extra reporting, analysis and more from CBS foreign desks across the globe.

Add to your favorite news reader
google
yahoo
msn