Whose concept was Non-Aligned Movement ?

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  1. Marshall Josip Broz Tito
  2. Sukarno
  3. Gamal Abdel Nasser
  4. Jawaharlal Nehru

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Option 4 : Jawaharlal Nehru
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Key Points:

Non-Aligned Movement (NAM):

  • The first NAM Summit Summit took place in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) in September 1961.
  • NAM (Non Aligned Movement)  is an organization of States that did not formally align themselves with either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War, but sought to remain independent or neutral.
  • A total of 120 states are members of NAM.
  • Jawahar Lal Nehru was one of the founding members, the principles of NAM was largely guided by Panchsheel principles.
  • The meeting of NAM in 2020 was organised virtually at the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan.
  • Prime Minister Narendra Modi also Joined the NAM virtual summit for the first time in 2020.
  • NAM does not have a permanent secretariat.
  • The theme of the summit was "United against COVID-19"

Additional Information List of NAM Summits:

First

September 1-6, 1961

Belgrade

Second

October 5-10, 1964

Cairo

Third

September 8-10, 1970

Lusaka

Fourth

September 5-9, 1973

Algiers

Fifth

August 16-19, 1976

Colombo

Sixth

September 3-9, 1979

Havana

Seventh

March 7-12, 1983

New Delhi

Eighth

September 1-6, 1986

Harare

Ninth

September 4-7, 1989

Belgrade

Tenth

September 1-7, 1992

Jakarta

Eleventh

October 18-20, 1995

Cartagena de Indias

Twelfth

September 2-3, 1998

Durban

Thirteenth

February 20-25, 2003

Kuala Lumpur

Fourteenth

September 15-16, 2006

Havana

Fifteenth

11-16 July 2009

Sharm El Sheikh

Sixteenth

26-31 August 2012

Tehran

Seventeenth

2015 

Caracas

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