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The leaders of Russia, Turkey and the United Nations have been invited to Tehran for an August 30-31 Non-Aligned Movement summit being hosted by Iran, its official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has accepted the invitation to the meeting, Mohammad-Reza Forqani, spokesman for the summit, was quoted as saying.
“Vladimir Putin and Abdullah Gul are high-profile invitees to the summit,” he added, without saying whether the Russian or Turkish presidents had confirmed they were going.
The NAM is a grouping of 120 countries which consider themselves not formally part of the world’s major power blocs.
Neither Russia nor Turkey are members, though Moscow has observer status.
Forqani said around 30 countries would be sending their head of state or government to the summit, at which Iran is to take over NAM’s rotating, two-year presidency from Egypt.
An Iranian vice president is on Wednesday to visit Cairo to officially invite Egypt’s new president, Mohamed Morsi, to the summit.