M'sia lobbies NAM members in UN Security Council to vote against war

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Malaysia, as chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), has urged its six non-permanent members in the UN Security Council to vote against a war o­n Iraq, foreign minister Syed Hamid Albar said today.

"We have written to all of them. I hope they will vote o­n the basis of what has been decided during the NAM Summit," he told reporters.

"We hope they will vote in our (NAM) favour for the sake of global peace and security."

The six NAM members are Syria, Cameroon, Chile, Guinea, Pakistan and Angola.

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