1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting
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| 1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting | |
|---|---|
 Mediterranean member states of the NAM in yellow and dark green (Yugoslavia) | |
| Host country | Malta |
| Date | 10-11 September 1984 |
| Cities | Valletta |
| Chair | Agatha Barbara (President of Malta) |
The 1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting (Maltese: Laqgħa Ministerjali tal-Pajjiżi Mediterranji Mhux Allinjati) held in Valletta, Malta on 10 and 11 September 1984 was the first ever ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned countries from the Mediterranean region.[1] The idea was to host an event with a restricted number of participants from the Mediterranean basin, where common concerns would be addressed.[2] At the time, the group included Southern Mediterranean and Levantine Arab countries and only three European non-aligned countries of Malta, Cyprus and SFR Yugoslavia.[3] The meeting concluded that freedom of the seas in a closed sea, such as the Mediterranean, should be exercised for peaceful purposes without military naval deployment, especially with non-Mediterranean countries.[4] The event was envisaged as a preliminary collective effort to achieving peace in the region.[5]
The following meeting of the group was organized in 1987 on the Brijuni Islands in the Yugoslav constituent Socialist Republic of Croatia.[2] The final document of the meeting was reaffirmed by the whole movement at the 1985 Luanda foreign ministers meeting, which concluded with a call for countries to respect the 1984 Valletta Declaration.[6]
