Scenes from the Nonaligned Summit
Charles Johnson
Fri Sep 15, 2006 at 12:29 pm PDT • Views: 1,516
A billboard opposite the U.S. diplomatic mission shows a picture depicting U.S. President George W. Bush with vampire-like fangs in Havana September 11, 2006. The Non-Aligned Movement of developing nations began a summit in Cuba on Monday with speeches that made no reference to the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in a sign of animosity to the United States. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)
Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Annan(L) is welcomed by temporary Cuban leader General Raul Castro before the opening ceremony of the XIV Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana. Leaders of developing countries started two days of talks in Havana without Cuba’s communist strongman Fidel Castro, whose convalescence kept him away from the spotlight he cherishes.(AFP/Adalberto Roque)
From left, the presidents of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko, and Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, gesture during the official photo of the 14h Nonaligned Summit in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, hugs Lebanese President Emile Lahoud while standing for an official photo during the Nonaligned Summit in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept. 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Fernando LLano)
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greets Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as South African President Thabo Mbeki (top) and Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika stand nearby during a group photo session of the summit of Non-Aligned nations, in Havana September 15, 2006. REUTERS/Gary Hershorn (CUBA)
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, shakes hands with North Korea’s No. 2, parliament leader Kim Yong Nam. during the inauguration ceremony of the 14h Nonaligned Summit in Havana, Cuba, Friday, Sept 15, 2006. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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