FINAL DOCUMENT

Havana, Cuba

16 September 2006

XIV CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF STATE OR GOVERNMENT OF THE NON – ALIGNED MOVEMENT

HAVANA, CUBA

11 – 16 SEPTEMBER 2006

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I : GLOBAL ISSUES

Review of the International Situation

Non-Aligned Movement: Role and Methods of Work

International Law

Promotion and Preservation of Multilateralism

Peaceful Settlement of Disputes, and Non-Use or Threat of Use of Force

Culture of Peace and Dialogue among Civilisations, Religions and Cultures

Defamation of Religions

Right to Self-Determination and Decolonisation

United Nations: Follow-up to the 2005 World Summit Outcome, the Millennium Declaration and the Outcome of Major United Nations Summits and Conferences

United Nations: Institutional Reform

     A. Reform of the United Nations

     B. Relationship among the Principal Organs of the United Nations

     C. Revitalisation of the Work of the General Assembly

     D. Appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

     E. Question of Equitable Representation and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council, and other Matters Related to the Security Council

     F. Strengthening of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC)

     G. Operationalisation of the Human Rights Council

     H. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding Activities and the Operationalisation of the Peacebuilding Commission

     I. Review of Mandates of United Nations Programmes and Activities

     J. United Nations Secretariat and Management Reform

United Nations: Financial Situation and Arrangement

United Nations: Peacekeeping Operations

Disarmament and International Security

Terrorism

Democracy

North-South Dialogue and Cooperation

Role of Regional Organisations

CHAPTER II : REGIONAL AND SUB-REGIONAL POLITICAL ISSUES

Middle East

Peace Process

Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem

Occupied Syrian Golan

Remaining Occupied Lands in Southern Lebanon and the Recent Israeli Aggression against Lebanon

Africa

Angola

Chagos Archipelago

Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Somalia

The Sudan

The Great Lakes Region

Western Sahara

Asia

Afghanistan

Iraq and Kuwait

Iraq

Korean Peninsula

Southeast Asia

Syrian Arab Republic

Latin America and the Caribbean

Belize and Guatemala

Cuba

Panama

Venezuela

Guyana and Venezuela

Honduras

Bolivia

CHAPTER III : DEVELOPMENT, SOCIAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES

Introduction

Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States.

Middle Income Developing Countries

Trade

South-South Cooperation

International Migration and Development

Water

The Dead Sea

The Caribbean Sea

Energy

Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Racism and Racial Discrimination, Slavery and Trafficking in Persons

International Humanitarian Law

Humanitarian Assistance

Information and Communication Technology

Advancement of Women

Indigenous People

Illiteracy

Health, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and other communicable diseases

Transnational Organised Crime

Drug Trafficking

Corruption

Annex I : Member Countries of the Non–Aligned Movement

Annex II : The Founding Principles of the Non-Aligned Movement

INTRODUCTION

1. The Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, met under the Chairmanship of H.E. Dr. Fidel Castro Ruz, President of the Council of State and the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, in Havana, Cuba on 15 and 16 September 2006 to address the existing, new and emerging global issues of collective concern and interest to the Movement, with a view to generating the necessary responses and initiatives thereof. In this regard, they reaffirmed and underscored the Movement’s abiding faith in and strong commitment to its Founding Principles, ideals and purposes, particularly in establishing a peaceful and prosperous world as well as a just and equitable world order.

2. The Heads of State or Government affirmed the continued relevance and validity of all principled positions and decisions of the Movement as contained in the substantive outcome documents of the XIII Conference of Heads of State or Government of the NAM held in Kuala Lumpur on 24 and 25 February 2003 and the preceding twelve Summit Conferences of the Movement, as well as all preceding Ministerial Conferences or Meetings of the Movement. 

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