Annan to attend NAM summit in Cuba

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan will be traveling to Havana, Cuba, this week to attend the 14th summit meeting of the Nonaligned Movement (NAM), his spokesman announced Wednesday.

Annan, in remarks to the NAM plenary meeting on Friday morning, "is expected to speak about the transformation of the Nonaligned Movement into a movement for the developing world, and the contribution of developing nations in changing the entire dynamic of international relations over the past few decades," the spokesman said in a statement released in New York.

"He will call for a greater voice for the South in multilateral institutions, from the financial to the political," the spokesman said, adding that he "will also stress that with a larger voice comes larger responsibility, both globally and at home."

While in Havana the secretary-general will also have bilateral meetings with senior Cuban officials as well as with a number of heads of delegations who will be attending the summit, according to the statement.

Source: Xinhua