No:537/23, Press release on the speech of Minister Jeyhun Bayramov at the ministerial meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee of the Non-Aligned Movement, the Group of 77 and China
22 September 2023 21:23
On 22 September 2023, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jeyhun Bayramov co-chaired and delivered a speech at the ministerial meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Group of 77 and China within the framework of his participation in the high-level week of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
In his speech, the Minister stated that the resumption of the JCC’s activity after 9 years is a historic event, that during Azerbaijan’s chairmanship of NAM, Azerbaijan identified the revitalization of the JCC as one of the priority areas of its activity, and that thanks to productive cooperation with Cuban colleagues, our country managed to organize the JCC meeting.
The Minister noted that at the Ministerial Meeting of the Coordinating Bureau of NAM held in Baku in July of the current year, member states once again reaffirmed the need to strengthen coordination between NAM and the Group of 77 and China in order to increase the role of developing countries in international economic, trade and financial issues. In this regard, it was emphasized that Azerbaijan looks forward to the holding of the Third South Summit of the Group of 77 and China and the Nineteenth Summit of NAM in Kampala, the capital of Uganda, in January 2024, and that this demonstrates that South-South Cooperation between the Group of 77 and NAM within the framework of the JCC will be further strengthened.
The Minister also stated that at the 2023 Ministerial Meeting held in Baku, NAM member states agreed that they would work with the Group of 77 and China on the establishment of a UN Specialized Agency for South-South cooperation, with its headquarters to be located in a developing country. It was stated that South-South Cooperation reflects the joint actions of developing countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals on the basis of the principle of solidarity.
