23/08/2012 13:05
Ban Ki-moon leaves for Iran
The United Nations announced Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend a meeting of non-aligned nations in Iran at the end of this month, despite objections from the United States and Israel.
Ban will visit Tehran to attend the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of 120 countries formed in 1961 that professed no formal alignment with the major power blocs at the time. The meeting this month is expected to include several heads of state, foreign ministers and other officials, the Voice of America reports.