Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)

Founded 1961 · Headquarters: No permanent headquarters (rotating chairmanship)

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Purpose

A forum of states not formally aligned with or against any major Cold War power bloc.

Members:: 120 member states
Headquarters:: No permanent headquarters (rotating chairmanship)

History

NAM was founded in Belgrade in 1961, led by figures such as Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Indonesia's Sukarno, building on the 1955 Bandung Conference's spirit of Afro-Asian solidarity.

Structure

Summit of Heads of State/Government (held roughly every three years)

Key facts

With the Cold War's end, NAM's original rationale has weakened, though it remains the second-largest grouping of states after the UN and continues to address South-South cooperation and developing-world concerns

Pakistan's relationship

Founding member (1961), having attended the inaugural Belgrade summit.