Ilham Aliyev: 'We are planning to organize a Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement next March'

"We are planning to organize a Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement next March," President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said, speaking at the opening ceremony of the 31st Arab League Summit, Report informs, citing AZERTAC.

"I, using this opportunity, would like to invite the members of Arab League, the heads of state and government to participate in the Summit," the head of state said.

The Azerbaijani leader noted that as a chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement, Azerbaijan plays an important role on the international arena.

"We organized a Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, we initiated a Special Session of the UN General Assembly devoted to COVID-19, which was held in December 2020. All these initiatives had one objective-the objective to help the countries, which are in need, to help the countries and to mobilize resources, and to help the countries, which cannot afford to acquire vaccines. As you remember, dear colleagues, at the beginning of the pandemic, the access to vaccines was the most critical issue. Some developed countries of the West were acquiring the number of vaccines 5-10 times more than they needed, while countries which did not have resources had to suffer. So, Azerbaijan was very vocal against vaccine nationalism, against unfair distribution of vaccines and that strengthened the support of the Non-Aligned Movement to our position," President Aliyev said.