Non-Aligned Movement Summit

Non-Aligned Movement Summit

News: It was recently held in Uganda.

About NAM:
• The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) stands as an alliance of developing nations established in 1961 during the Cold War, with roots traced back to the Bandung Conference held in Indonesia in 1955.
• Currently, NAM boasts a membership of 120 countries, including India, one of its founding members.
• It is ranked as the second-largest grouping of nations globally, NAM operates without a permanent secretariat or a formal founding charter, act, or treaty. The movement convenes its summit approximately every three years.

Key highlights:
• The theme of the summit was \'Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence\'.
• The summit aimed to discuss key issues like global cooperation, solidarity, and advancing common goals of developing countries related to politics, economics, and culture. The discussions at the summit addressed multiple conflicts across the world, climate change, inflation, and growth challenges.
• The summit also focused on creating cohesion within the movement to ensure that they can work together as a movement for the good of humanity.