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Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement
This office title is wrong. The Non-Aligned Movement is chaired by the summit host country; Cuba held the chair from 2006 to 2009, but NAM does not have a standing office titled “Secretary-General.”
Full reasoning
Official descriptions of the Non-Aligned Movement identify its top rotating post as the Chair, not a secretary-generalship.
- A United Nations explainer on UN member-state groups says: “NAM summits take place every three years. The host country of the summit is automatically the Chair until the next summit.”
- South Africa’s Department of Foreign Affairs likewise states that at the 2006 Havana summit, “Cuba also assumed the Chair for the next three years.”
So Raúl Castro's 2006–2009 role was as Cuba's representative in the chairmanship of NAM, not as “Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement.”
2 sources
- Groups of Member States | United Nations
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) ... NAM summits take place every three years. The host country of the summit is automatically the Chair until the next summit.
- Non-Aligned Movement | South African Department of Foreign Affairs
The XIV Summit of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement was hosted by Cuba in Havana in September 2006, on which occasion Cuba also assumed the Chair for the next three years.