1984 Mediterranean Non-Aligned Countries Ministerial Meeting

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 of the organizer was to host an event with restricted number of participants from the Mediterranean basin where common concerns will 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 like Mediterranean should be exercised for peaceful purposes without military naval deployment, especially by non-Mediterranean countries.^[4] The event was envisaged as a preliminary collective effort by the countries concerned at the achievement of the 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 subsequently reaffirmed by the NAM movement as a whole when at the 1985 Luanda foreign ministers meeting the final document of that meeting called states of the world to respect the 1984 Valletta Declaration.^[6]