September 1 in History
1961 – The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc, originated in the 1950s as an effort by some countries to avoid the polarized world of the Cold War between the pro-Soviet communist countries belonging to the Warsaw Pact, and the pro-American capitalist countries belonging to NATO. Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was established in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia through an initiative of the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah and Indonesian President Sukarno. This led to the first Conference of Heads of State or Governments of Non-Aligned Countries on this day the same year. The term non-aligned movement first appears in the fifth conference in 1976, where participating countries are denoted as “members of the movement”. After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide.
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Photo Caption- Belgrade Conference, September 1961 with representatives from Afghanistan, Algeria, Burma, Cambodia, Cuba, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tunisia, the United Arab Republic, Yemen, and Yugoslavia – Wikipedia