The head of state will use a presidential plane that will take off from Halim Perdanakusuma air force base, East Jakarta, at 2 pm local time, Tuesday.
Before leaving for Bali, the president attended an inter-state institution meeting organized by the Constitution Court in Jakarta,
President Yudhoyono is scheduled to officially open the 16th Ministerial Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at Nusa Dua, Bali, Wednesday (May 25).
NAM was founded in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in September 1961, to forge solidarity, boost confidence and unite visions of 25 developing countries joining the Belgrade meeting.
At present, almost 60 percent of the United Nations (UN) members are NAM members.
The ministerial meeting will be proceeded by a senior officials meeting and a Commemorative Meeting expected to produce a Bali Commemorative Declaration (BCD) to mark the 50th anniversary of NAM.
The theme of the 16th NAM ministerial meeting and the Commemorative meeting is "Shared Vision on the Contribution of NAM for The next 50 years."
The NAM meeting`s organizing committee has invited 118 member countries, Fiji and Azerbaijan as the new members, 18 observer countries (such as Argentine, Bosnia, Brazil, China, Serbia, Mexico and Ukraine), 10 observer organizations (among others the African Union, the United Nations, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference - OIC), 26 guest countries (such as the United States, Japan, and Russia), and 23 guest organizations (among others UNIDO, UNESCAP, and ICRC).
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