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Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Countries

Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

NAM website

Headquarters: Jakarta (Indonesia)

 1 Sep 1961                Non-Aligned Movement founded.

Chairmen 1 Sep 1961 -  5 Oct 1964  Josip Broz Tito (Yugoslavia)    (b. 1892 - d. 1980)   5 Oct 1964 -  8 Sep 1970  Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)      (b. 1918 - d. 1970)   8 Sep 1970 -  5 Aug 1973  Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia)         (b. 1924)  5 Aug 1973 - 16 Aug 1976  Houari Boumedienne (Algeria)    (b. 1927? - d. 1978)  16 Aug 1976 -  4 Feb 1978  William Gopallawa (Sri Lanka)   (b. 1897 - d. 1981)  4 Feb 1978 -  3 Sep 1979  Junius Richard Jayawardene      (b. 1906 - d. 1996)                               (Sri Lanka)  3 Sep 1979 -  7 Mar 1983  Fidel Castro (Cuba)(1st time)   (b. 1926)   7 Mar 1983 - 25 Jul 1982  N. Sanjiva Reddy (India)        (b. 1913 - d. 1996) 25 Jul 1982 -  1 Sep 1986  Zail Singh (India)              (b. 1916 - d. 1994)   1 Sep 1986 -  4 Sep 1989  Robert Mugabe (Zimbabwe)        (b. 1924)   4 Sep 1989 - 15 May 1990  Janez Drnovšek (Yugoslavia)     (b. 1950 - d. 2008)  15 May 1990 - 15 May 1991  Borisav Jović (Yugoslavia)      (b. 1928)   1 Jul 1991 -  3 Oct 1991  Stipe Mesić (Yugoslavia)        (b. 1934)   3 Oct 1991 - 15 Jun 1992  Branko Kostić (Yugoslavia)      (b. 1939)                               (acting) 15 Jun 1992 -  1 Sep 1992  Dobrica Ćosić (Yugoslavia)      (b. 1921 - d. 2014)   1 Sep 1992 - 18 Oct 1995  Suharto (Indonesia)             (b. 1921 - d. 2008) 18 Oct 1995 -  7 Aug 1998  Ernesto Samper Pizano (Colombia)(b. 1950)   7 Aug 1998 -  2 Sep 1998  Andrés Pastrana Arango          (b. 1954)                              (Colombia)  2 Sep 1998 - 16 Jun 1999  Nelson Mandela (South Africa)   (b. 1918 - d. 2013) 16 Jun 1999 - 20 Feb 2003  Thabo Mbeki (South Africa)      (b. 1942) 20 Feb 2003 - 31 Oct 2003  Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mohamad (b. 1925)                              (Malaysia) 31 Oct 2003 - 15 Sep 2006  Datuk Abdullah Ahmad Badawi     (b. 1939)                              (Malaysia) 15 Sep 2006 - 24 Feb 2008  Fidel Castro (Cuba)(2nd time)   (s.a.) 15 Sep 2006 - 11 Jul 2009  Raúl Castro (Cuba)              (b. 1931)                              (acting for Fidel Castro to 24 Feb 2008)
11 Jul 2009 - 11 Feb 2011  Hosni Mubarak (Egypt)           (b. 1928)
11 Feb 2011 - 30 Jun 2012  Mohammed Hussein Tantawi (Egypt)(b. 1931)
30 Jun 2012 - 26 Aug 2012  Mohamed Morsi (Egypt)           (b. 1951)
26 Aug 2012 -  3 Aug 2013  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (Iran)      (b. 1956)
 3 Aug 2013 -              Hassan Rouhani (Iran)           (b. 1948)

NAM membership (120)

Date of Admission	Member Nations
1 Sep 1961	Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma1, Cambodia, Ceylon2, Congo (Kinshasa)3, Cuba, Cyprus4, Egypt5, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, The Sudan, Tunisia, Yemen (Sana)6, Yugoslavia7
5 Oct 1964	Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey8, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Liberia, Libya, Malawi, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Syria, Tanganyika9, Togo, Uganda, Zambia
8 Sep 1970	Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guyana, Jamaica, Lesotho, Malaysia, Rwanda, Singapore, Swaziland, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, Yemen (Aden)6
5 Sep 1973	Argentina10, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Chile, The Gambia, Ivory Coast11, Madagascar12, Malta13, Mauritius, Niger, Oman, Peru, Qatar, South Vietnam (NLF)14, Upper Volta15
15 Aug 1976	Belize16, Cape Verde17, Comoros, Guinea-Bissau, Maldives, Mozambique, North Korea, Palestine, Panama, São Tomé and Príncipe, Seychelles, Vietnam
3 Sep 1979	Bolivia, Grenada, Iran, Namibia18, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Zimbabwe
7 Mar 1983	The Bahamas, Barbados, Colombia, Djibouti, Ecuador, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Vanuatu
4 Sep 1989	Venezuela
1 Sep 1993	Brunei Darussalam, Guatemala, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Uzbekistan
31 May 1994	South Africa
18 Oct 1995	Eritrea, Honduras, Turkmenistan
2 Sep 1998	Belarus
8 Apr 2000	Dominican Republic
20 Feb 2003	East Timor, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
29 May 2006	Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica
16 Sep 2006	Haiti, Saint Kitts and Nevis
25 May 2011	Azerbaijan, Fiji
1from 1989 Myanmar. 2from 1972 Sri Lanka. 3Congo (Léopoldville) to 1966; 1966-71 and from 1997 Congo (Kinshasa); 1971-97 Zaire. 4ceased to be a member 1 May 2004. 51958 - 1961 part of the United Arab Republic, union of Egypt and Syria; in 1961 Syria left the union. 6Yemen (Aden) and Yemen (Sana) united 22 May 1990 as Yemen. 7suspended from 30 Sep 1992; from 4 Feb 2003 called Serbia and Montenegro, dissolved 5 Jun 2006. 8from 1975 Benin.  9United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, 1 Nov 1964 renamed Tanzania. 10withdrew Sep 1991. 11from 1985 Côte d'Ivoire. 12to 30 Dec 1975 Malagasy Republic. 13ceased to be a member 1 May 2004. 14Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, represented by National Liberation Front (NLF); from 30 Apr 1975 Republic of South Vietnam; from 23 Aug 1976 united with North Vietnam as Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 15from 1984 Burkina Faso. 16special member to 25 Sep 1981. 17from 2013 Cabo Verde. 18represented by South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) to 21 Mar 1990.

MOHAMED FATHI TAHA Past Director of Egypt Meteorology Authority Organization

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MOHAMED FATHI TAHA

Egypt, Executive Committee, President & Member, Under Secretary of State, World Meteorological Organization

Born January 15, 1914

Cairo, Al Qahirah, Egypt

Nationality

Egyptian

Award

• Order of Merit, Egypt, 1954.

Education

• Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1930-1934, Bachelor of Science Physics; Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, 1937-1938, Diploma of Membership of the Imperial College of Science and Technology Meteorology; spoken languages: Arabic, English

Career

• President & Member, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization. Under Secretary of State, Egypt. Chairman, Board of Directors, Egyptian Meteorological Authority since 1971.
  
  President, Permanent Meteorological Committee, League of Arab States, since 1971. Chairman, National Committee on Geodesy & Geophysics, Academy of Sciences, Cairo, 1967. Member, Outer Space Exploration Committee, Academy of Sciences, 1967.
  
  Second V President, Executive Committee, World Meteorological Organization, 1959-1963, Member, 1955-1959. V President, World Meteorological Organization Reg Commission for Africa, 1947. External Lecturer, Faculty of Science, University of Cairo, 1942-1944.

Works

• Climates of the Near East. Climate & Meteorology North of the Tropic of Cancer, 1960.

Membership

• Union of Scientific Workers, Egypt.; several Sports Clubs.

Personality

Interests

Aeronautical meteorology. Light sports & games.

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CHy-V |1976 - 1980

• President: Mr Robert Clark(Canada)
• Vice-President: Mr Nathaniel Popoola (Nigeria)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 453
• Place of the session: Ottawa, Canada, 5-16 July 1976
• President of WMO: Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
• Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
• Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nem

CHy-IV |1972 - 1976

• President: Mr Eugene Popov (USSR)
• Vice-President: Mr Robert Clark (Canada)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 330
• Place of the session: Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3-17 April 1972
  • President of WMO: Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
  • Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
  • Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nemec

CHy-III |1968 - 1972

• President: Mr Eugene Popov (USSR)
• Vice-President: Mr Jean A. Rodier (France)
• Report of the session: WMO-No. 239, RP, 79
• Place of the session: Geneva, 9-21 September 1968
  • President of WMO: Mr Alf Nyberg and Mr Mohamed Fathi Taha 
  • Secretary-General of WMO:Sir Arthur Davies 
  • Director within the Secretariat:Prof. Jerry Nemec

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WMO Celebrates Centenary of World Co-operation in Meteorology

In observance of the one hundredth anniversary of the First Meteorological Congress, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) sponsored an official ceremony here at the Swiss Federal Councillor Hans Peter Tschudi. Addresses were delivered by Mr. Tschudi, Mohammed Fathi Taha, President of WMO; David Arthur Davies, Secretary-General of WMO; and Vittorio Winspeare Guicciari, Director-General of the UN Office in Geneva, who delivered a message from UN Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim.

General view of the ceremony

10 September 1973

Geneva, Switzerland

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Except for the ·former Commissions for Climatology, Hydrometeorology and , to some extent, Synoptic Meteorology, which have been modified to become respectively Mr. M. F . Taha, newlyelected President of WMO , during the session of the Executive Committee following the Sixth WMO Congress the Commission for Special Applications of Meteorology and ClimatoJogy, the Commission for Hydrology and the Commission for Basic Systems, the functions of the technical commissions have not undergone considerable changes, nor have their· names been changed significantly. Congress decided that it was logical for the presidents and vice-presidents to continue to act in their present capacities.

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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

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Muhammad Ali of Egypt

Military officer

Muhammad Ali Pasha al-Mas'ud ibn Agha was an Ottoman Albanian commander in the Ottoman army, who rose to the rank of Pasha, and became Wāli, and self-declared Khedive of Egypt and Sudan with the Ottomans' temporary approval. Wikipedia

Born: March 4, 1769, Kavala, Greece

Died: August 2, 1849, Alexandria, Egypt

Place of burial: Mosque of Muhammad Ali, Egypt

House: Muhammad Ali dynasty

Children: Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt, Sa'id of Egypt, Tusun Pasha, More

Grandchildren: Isma'il Pasha, Abbas I of Egypt, Ahmad Rifaat Pasha,Mustafa Fazl Pasha, Muhammad Bey