16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement(NAM) - Thursday Aug 26-31,2012 Tehran,Iran

The NAM Summit consists of two preceding events -
1) a "Senior Officials Meeting" on  August 26-27, 2012
2)a "Ministerial Meeting" on 28 and 29 August 28 -29,2012
 The Leaders Summit will take place on  August 30-31,2012

In the 16th Summit,of the NAM's 120 member and 17 observer states -

50 states will participate with high-level delegations, including 27 Presidents, 2 Kings and Emirs, 7 Prime Ministers,9 Vice Presidents, 2 Parliamentary Speakers and 5 Special Envoys.

Agenda of the Summit
The agenda  primarily consist of issues pertaining to nuclear disarmament, human rights and regional issues.

Journalists watch from an adjacent conference room the speech of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  at the opening session of the summit of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

Iran's leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, parliament speaker Ali Larijani, chief of Expediency Council, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani, listen to Iran's national anthem, at the opening session of the NAM, summit

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad welcoming Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi for the opening session of the NAM, summit

 Indian PM Manmohan Singh with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon at the NAM Summit

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh listen to a speech by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi at the NAM summit