We look forward to collaborating more closely with the Non-Aligned countries, which have developed strong expertise in preventing conflicts.

UN: Secretary-General

Perhaps that was because the festival has abandoned its traditional concentration on films from friendly and non-aligned countries which in practice meant days full of film-makers from Iran, Syria and Vietnam all chatting about their latest revolutionary guerrilla videos.

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When the sanctions reached the oil sector, the Syrian regime boasted it would sell its crude to China, India and other "non-aligned" countries.

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The Non-Aligned Movement includes 120 countries that claim not to be aligned with any world power.

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The talks come ahead of a key meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries during the Non-Aligned Movement summit.

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As this transition becomes more acute, other energy rich countries, as well as non-aligned nations sympathetic to their views and in need of energy themselves, will join this anti-American movement.

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Representatives of African countries, ASEAN, the Non-Aligned Movement and the Organization of American States pleaded for debt relief and efforts to narrow the "digital divide" -- the fast-growing gap between nations with access to information technology and those starved of IT.

CNN: Just do it

The Muslim and non-aligned states often blame the West for focusing on abuses in poor countries while ignoring its own faults.

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