Non-Aligned Movement and South Asia

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NAM and India

PM-level participation

The Times of India, August 17, 2016

NAM was founded in 1961 in Belgrade and was intended to be a grouping of countries not aligned with the two major powers -the US and the erstwhile USSR -whose rivalry divided the world into two combating blocs. The group lost much of its relevance after the disintegration of the USSR and the unravel ling of the communist bloc.

The last time an Indian PM skipped NAM, which counts Jawaharlal Nehru as its founding father, was in 1979 when Charan Singh was the caretaker PM. In fact, the 1979 summit in Havana was the only occasion in the movement's 55 year history that an Indian PM did not show up.

The NDA government under A B Vajpayee.Vajpayee, attended both NAM summits --Durban in 1998 and Kuala Lumpur in 2003 -during his tenure as PM.