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12 unusual facts about Non-Aligned Movement


Agha Shahi

In 1982, after losing General Zia's favor when he made an attempt to keep country on Non-Aligned Movement membership, he lost the foreign affairs ministry to senior military officer Lieutenant-General Yakob Ali Khan.

Giovanni Gronchi

It was marked by the ambition to bring about a gradual “opening to the left”, whereby the Socialists and the (still Stalinist) Communist Party would be brought back into the national government, and Italy would abandon NATO, becoming a non-aligned country.

Janata Party

The Janata government announced its desire to achieve "genuine" non-alignment in the Cold War, which had been the long-standing national policy.

League of Non-Aligned Worlds

The League appears to be based on the Non-Aligned Movement, which resembles the League in that in its moments of unity it often wields as much power as the Great Powers in United Nations votes.

Liberal democracy period in Indonesia

It is the first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement and is attended by world leaders including China's Zhou Enlai, India's Nehru, Egypt's Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito.

Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy

In 1989, Dr. Qureshy planned and established the Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned (NAM) and other Developing Countries.

Nonalignment

Non-Aligned Movement, movement of states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any minor power bloc

North Vietnam

North Vietnam refused to establish diplomatic relations with the non-aligned government of Josip Broz Tito in Yugoslavia and repeatedly denounced his regime as "revisionist" for rejecting Stalinism.

Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam

The PRG maintained diplomatic relations with many countries of the Non-Aligned Movement, such as Algeria, as well as with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.

Pyongyang International Film Festival

As the name precisely delineated, the festival was a cultural exchange between countries of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Um-Shmum

The speech was primarily a response to the anti-Israeli declarations made in the Bandung Conference (the founding conference of the Non-Aligned Movement), which took place a few days earlier.

Vigyan Bhavan

Built in 1956, over the years it has been the venue of conferences of national and international stature, seminars and award ceremonies attended by distinguished world leaders and dignitaries, including Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in 1983, 7th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), March 7–12, 1983 and SAARC Summit.


Foreign relations of Liberia

Liberia is a founding member of the United Nations (see Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations) and its specialized agencies and is a member of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), African Development Bank (ADB), Mano River Union (MRU) and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Guinea-Bissau War of Independence

The PAIGC had already unilaterally proclaimed the country's independence a year before in the village of Madina do Boé, an event that had been recognized by many socialist and non-aligned member states of the United Nations.

Helmi Johannes

As television reporter Helmi Johannes had covered the OPEC Meeting in Paris, France in 1991, the 1992 UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Jakarta (1992) and the 1994 APEC Summit in Bogor, Indonesia.

History of Sweden

Sweden followed a policy of armed neutrality during World War II and currently remains non-aligned.

India and the Non-Aligned Movement

The movement had its origins in the 1947 Asian Relations Meeting in New Delhi and the 1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia.

Indonesia–Israel relations

This, what press said was Rabin's unscheduled visit, happened during Suharto's chairmanship of the Non-Aligned Movement and shortly after the Oslo Accords.

Jyotindra Nath Dixit

He was also a representative of India to the UN, UNIDO, UNESCO, ILO and Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).