Harry Narine Nawbatt, Guyana’s High Commissioner to Canada, is representing Guyana at the Non-Aligned Movement’s 16th summit currently on in Tehran, Iran.
This was confirmed by a Foreign Ministry official yesterday. Reuters reported this week that around 35 heads of state or government are attending from the movement’s wide membership that stretches from developing giants such as India to tiny Caribbean islands. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will also attend, resisting diplomatic pressure to boycott the event.
The Non-Aligned Movement comprises about two-thirds of the UN member states and was established in 1961 in Belgrade.
Guyana has been a longstanding member and had an influential presence particularly during the Cold War.
