Magazine

Issue No. 95

Editorial Mr. E.A.Vidyasekera

With this issue our magazine “Development and Socio-Economic Progress” will undergo a transformation. As we are living in an age of “Information Technology”, more and more people use internet in their daily life. Most of our friends and even AAPSO national committees use internet and websites. Therefore we have decided with this issue to feed our website rather than separately publishing the magazine. This serves time and economise work. Interested readers can select the required article from the issue in the website.

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Africa and the Middle East Area Minerals Production Global Demand and Combination

Dr. James A. Harris, Sr.*

Africa and the Middle East Area Minerals Production,
Global Demand, and Combination

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Transcontinental Africa, including its territories and adjacent islands, possesses enormous wealth and huge natural resources, ranking Africa at the top among nations in terms of the amount of world reserves of bauxite, chromite, cobalt, diamond, gold, manganese, phosphate rock, platinum-group metals (PGM), titanium minerals (rutile and ilmenite), vanadium, vermiculite, zirconium and petroleum. Africa covers a land area of 30.3 million square kilometers representing a land area that is more than three times the size of the United States.

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15th Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement

Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad*

 15th Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement

Tehran, 27-30 July 2008

 

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

"Oh Allah hasten the reappearance of your VALI (Friend and Imam, the MAHDI), and give him health, good fate and help, and put us in his best followers and helpers and under his supervision"

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The Sticking Points and the Prospect of the Iranian Nuclear Issue

Mr. Zhu Qianguo*

The Sticking Points and the Prospect of the Iranian Nuclear Issue

 

On March 24, 2007, the UN Security Council adopted the 1747 Resolution on the Iranian nuclear issue. The Resolution steps up the sanction against Iranian nuclear and missile programs by demanding Iran to adopt a moratorium on its uranium enrichment activities and at the same time seek to solve the Iranian nuclear issue through negotiation. The Iranian nuclear issue once again has come to a stalemate.

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Consequences of the decline of Bandung Dynamics: Extension of Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism in the Middle East, the Arab World and Lebanon

Prof. Boutros Labaki*

Consequences of the decline of Bandung dynamics: Extension of globalization and religious Fundamentalism
in the Middle East, the Arab World and Lebanon

 

Contents



- Introduction

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