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29 August 2012 - 20:26

Afghan President Hamid Karzai arrived in Tehran on Wednesday afternoon to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit meeting and confer with Iranian officials on different regional and international issues.

Karzai expressed pleasure in his presence in Tehran, and told reporters at Mehrabad international airport that NAM can play an effective role in solving different problems in the world.

"NAM can play a valuable role in the settlement of the global problems," Karzai said.

Asked about countries' expectations of the NAM during the Tehran conference, he underlined, "The heads of state can review the world's economic and political problems in this conference and we hope that the solutions to these problems will be found in the summit."

Around 110 countries are attending the Tehran conference and more than 45 states will send their top officials to the heads-of-state summit on Thursday and Friday.

Iran inherited the rotating three-year leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement on Tuesday, a platform for anti-Western sentiments and grievances over big-power domination.
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