DUSHANBE, April 7, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Tajik Deputy Foreign Minister, Nizomiddin Zohidi, yesterday met here with Iranian Ambassador to Tajikistan, Hojatollah Faghani.

According to the Tajik MFA information department, Iranian ambassador handed to Zohidi Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarf’s letter to Tajik Foreign Minister Sirojiddin Aslov inviting him to participate in a meeting of foreign ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) that will take place in Tehran from June 9-10, 2015.

In the course of the talks, Zohidi and Faghani also discussed state and prospects of further expansion of bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Iran, the source said.

Iranian media outlets report that Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Coordinating Bureau will convene in Tehran, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from June 7-10, 2015 to prepare for the next Summit of the NAM and consider issues of major importance to the Movement.  The Ministerial segment of the event will be held on June 9-10, 2015, and it will be preceded by the Preparatory Senior Officials Meeting on June 7-8, 2015.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc.

The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia''s president, Josip Broz Tito, India''s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt''s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana''s first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesia''s first president, Sukarno.  All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War.  The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.