NAM Leaders Wind Up Summit With 'Call For Peace'

Kuala Lumpur - The 13th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Conference ended on Tuesday night with a call for peace.

His Majesty Sultan of Brunei attended the two-day conference involving heads of states and governments.

During the conference, His Majesty stressed that diplomacy is the most effective way of settling international problems.

The Kuala Lumpur Declaration, which is the essence of the aspiration of the 116-member movement, reiterated that every effort must be made to strengthen the United Nations as an indispensable international organisation for the promotion of international peace and security.

This point is in line with Brunei stance, which has confidence in the judgement of the United Nations Security Council and the due process of international law.

In referring to the current global situation, the summit stressed that conflict among states should only be resolved through dialogue and diplomacy.

The call is similar to the Brunei position, which was voiced by His Majesty in his speech in the summit, when the Brunei ruler said that "diplomacy is the most effective way of settling international problem".

The NAM summit in its statement concerning Iraq has rejected war.

The leaders believed that war against Iraq would be a destabilising factor for the Middle East.

They said that war would have far reaching political, economic and humanitarian consequences for all countries of the world, particularly the states in the region.

In their statement on Palestine, the leaders expressed their grave concern at the policies and practices of Israel that undermined the Oslo Agreements and obstructed efforts to end the tragic situation in occupied territories.

They called for the immediate withdrawal of Israel's occupying forces from Palestinian cities.

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