Diplomats and leaders from more than one hundred countries are in Cuba this week for a meeting of the Non-Alligned Movement. The group unites Third World countries as an alternative front to bodies such as the Group of Eight. A major focus of the meeting is to call for a global redefinition of the word “terrorism.” Some attendees want the term to also include all acts of violence against innocent civilians, including those carried out by states.

• NAM Conference spokesperson Abelardo Montero Fernandez: “In the final document approved by the Heads of State there is a chapter dedicated to condemnation and repudiation of terrorism in all its shape and forms from the non-aligned countries against whoever and by whomever it is committed and under whatever guise.”