1983 President His Highness Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan arrived for the seventh non-aligned summit conference in New Delhi. The president was received at the airport by his Indian counterpart Giani Zail Singh. In an arrival statement, Shaikh Zayed called upon the leaders of the non-aligned states to intensify their efforts to solve all disputes among the movement’s members and to help establish a new international economic order.
Shaikh Zayed said the seventh nonaligned summit conference was an expression of the aspirations of the Third World for progress, stability and peace. He said the conference was being held in circumstances marred by political conflicts and economic crises. He added they were escalating in a direction threatening the security and stability of the international community.
The President called upon the non-aligned states to adhere to the principles of the movement; to reject superpower domination and to strive toward an independent policy that would enable them to achieve security and prosperity for their peoples.
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1957 Gold Coast and Togoland form independent West African nation of Ghana.
1964 American heavy-weight boxing champion Cassius Clay changes his name to Muhammad Ali.
1970 Alexander Dubcek, former Czech Communist Party boss, is suspended from party.
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1981 Hijackers shoot and kill one of their 116 hostages aboard a Pakistani airliner at Kabul airport and throw him onto the tarmac.
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1990 Afghan defence minister Shahnawaz Tanai leads unsuccessful coup attempt against government of Najibullah.
1993 Unita rebels capture Angola’s second largest city, Huambo, after a two-month battle with government troops.
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2003 Air Algerie plane crashes after taking off from the Sahara desert town of Tamanrasset and killing 102 passengers abroad.
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2006 Kuwait’s Parliament approves a new press law that takes away the government’s right to close down newspapers without court ruling.
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2008 Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega announces that he is breaking relations with Colombia.
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