1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting

Ministerial Meeting July 2025 1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting Nesvrstane zemlje Mediterana-YU.png Mediterranean member states of the NAM in yellow and dark green (Yugoslavia) Malta 10-11 September 1984 Valletta Agatha Barbara (President of Malta) The 1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting (mt Laqgħa Ministerjali tal-Pajjiżi Mediterranji Mhux Allinjati) held in Valletta, Malta on 10 and 11 September 1984 was the first ever ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned countries from the Mediterranean region.https://unispal.un.org/DPA/DPR/unispal.nsf/5ba47a5c6cef541b802563e000493b8c/9c1d52f4f469959d852568af0076d107 Letter dated 21 September 1984 from the Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General 27 September 1984 United Nations Information System on the Question of Palestine 30 January 2022 The idea was to host an event with a restricted number of participants from the Mediterranean basin, where common concerns would be addressed.https://aei.pitt.edu/386/1/jmwp05.htm Mediterranean Diplomacy. Evolution and Prospects Jean Monnet Working Papers in Comparative and International Politics Alberto Bin (University of Malta) January 1997 30 January 2022 At the time, the group included Southern Mediterranean and Levantine Arab countries and only three European non-aligned countries of Malta, Cyprus and SFR Yugoslavia.Vukadinović Radovan 1986 Strategije sigurnosti mediteranskih zemalja Croatian Political Science Review https://hrcak.srce.hr/114077 23 1 121–130 The meeting concluded that freedom of the seas in a closed sea, such as the Mediterranean, should be exercised for peaceful purposes without military naval deployment, especially with non-Mediterranean countries.https://www.un.org/en/sc/repertoire/85-88/Chapter%208/85-88_08-25-Letters%20dated%2025%20March%201986%20from%20the%20Permanent%20%20Rep%20of%20Malta,%20Union%20of%20Soviet%20Socialist%20Republics%20and%20Iraq.pdf Letter dated 26 March 1986 from the Permanent Representative of Iraq to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council 26 March 1985 United Nations 30 January 2022 The event was envisaged as a preliminary collective effort to achieving peace in the region.https://pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/transcript-6767 COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING, THE NASSAU COMMUNIQUE, OCTOBER 1985, COMMONWEALTH SECRETARIAT, CABLE BEACH HOTEL, NASSAU, 22 OCTOBER 1985 22 October 1983 Australian Government 30 January 2022 The following meeting of the group was organized in 1987 on the Brijuni Islands in the Yugoslav constituent Socialist Republic of Croatia. The final document of the meeting was reaffirmed by the whole movement at the 1985 Luanda foreign ministers meeting, which concluded with a call for countries to respect the 1984 Valletta Declaration. Yearbook of the United Nations. 39. 1985 (1989) 1989 United Nations Department of Public Information 259 0792305035 References See also Foreign relations of Malta EU Med Group Cyprus–Malta relations Malta–Yugoslavia relations Libya–Malta relations Mediterranean Category:Foreign relations of Malta Category:History of Valletta Category:1984 conferences Category:1984 in politics Category:1984 in Malta Category:Euromediterranean Partnership Category:Diplomatic conferences in Malta