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 LevantineArab 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]
