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NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT

• The Non-Aligned Movement is a Movement of countries representing the interests and priorities of developing countries.
• The Movement has its origin in the Asia-Africa Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia in 1955.

NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT

• The Non-Aligned Movement as an organization was founded on the Brijuni islands in Yugoslavia in 1956, and was formalized by signing the Declaration of Brijuni on 19 July 1956.
• The Declaration was signed by Yugoslavia’s president, Josip Broz Tito, India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

NAM ORIGINS

• Sri Lanka. In this speech, Zhou Enlai and Nehru described the five pillars to be used as a guide for Sino-Indian relations called Panchsheel (five restraints); these principles would later serve as the basis of the Non-Aligned Movement. The five principles were:

1. Mutual respect for each other’s territorial integrity and sovereignty.
2. Mutual non-aggression.
3. Mutual non-interference in domestic affairs.
4. Equality and mutual benefit.
5. Peaceful co-existence.

SUMMITS

PM MODI SKIPPED 2016 NAM SUMMIT

CHAIRPERSON

• A chairperson is elected at each summit meeting.

THEME OF NAM SUMMIT

INDIA PAKISTAN AT NAM

• Naidu said India spoke for the larger region while expressing its deep concern over Pakistan’s behaviour. “All of us in NAM are focused on meeting our developmental goals and aspirations. Pakistan clearly needs to do much more to earn the confidence of the international community. It must decisively abjure terrorism — for its own good, for that of its neighbours and for the good of the world,” he said.

DECLARATION

PROBLEMS WITH NAM

• Drift between major countries like India and Pakistan within the group
• Most of the countries are already aligned to either U.S or China/Russia

WAY FORWARD

• NAM as a concept can never be irrelevant, principally it provides a strong base to foreign policy of its members.
• It should be seen as “Strategic Autonomy”, which is the need of the hour of today’s world. The principles of NAM still can guide the nations towards it.
• NAM is a platform where India can assert its soft power and provide an active leadership and by being a torchbearer for smaller countries at multilateral platforms.

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