HRH Prince Mohamed At NAM Summit In Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur - Brunei Foreign Affairs Minister His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Bolkiah is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to attend the 13th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit at the Putra World Trade Centre.

His Royal Highness attended the Preparatory Ministerial Meeting yesterday.

Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dato Seri Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi opened the meeting.

The ministers discussed preparations of the two-day summit scheduled to open on Monday.

During the interactive ministerial session, the foreign minister said that NAM's works have encouraged Brunei since the Sultanate became a member ten years back.

The Prince specifically commended the Movement's focus that had been given on South-south Cooperation in promoting common ideas, experiences, technical advances, skills and expertise.

According to His Royal Highness, the work of NAM fitted well to the modern ideas of capacity building, a much-needed concept in which NAM could exert a lasting effect in terms of attracting investment to developing countries.

He also highlighted the South-south Centre in Jakarta, which he said would be able to focus on this kind of work.

Following the interactive ministerial session, Brunei's foreign minister held bilateral meetings with several representatives of NAM member nations attending the meeting.

He first met with the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, the Right Honourable Donald McKinnon.

During the meeting, His Royal Highness and the Right Honourable exchanged views on general matters of commonwealth and interest of NAM.

He then met with Tunisia's Foreign Affairs Minister Habib Ben Yahia. Tunisia is one of the North African countries that have been a member of NAM.

The Prince later joined the other ministers in a luncheon hosted by the Malaysian Foreign Affairs Minister Dato Syed Hamid bin Syed Jaafar Albar.

The ministers resumed their plenary meeting to consider and adopt the report of the preparatory meeting for submission to the summit on Monday.

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