The head of the Non-Aligned Movement urged its 114 member countries on Wednesday to «put our houses in order» to avoid outside intervention, warning that detractors have already consigned the once powerful bloc of Third World countries to «the dustbin of history.» «Poverty and backwardness still characterize many of our countries,» Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. «Some among us are still beset by conflicts ... arising from ethnic, cultural and religious differences and increasing intolerance.» Badawi spoke at the closed annual meeting of the organization's foreign ministers, held on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly's ministerial session.
