The 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit begins on Thursday, minus the fire and brimstone expected by its critics, as the preceding meetings of officials and Ministers managed to resolve all the three controversial issues that could have made it contentious, said government sources involved in the negotiations.
“There were three outstanding issues, and then there was great interest on account of the location of the summit. There were expectations that developments in Syria, the foremost of the three, could overshadow the deliberations. But there is a difference between fact and fiction. When the NAM preparatory meetings began in New York, it was quite clear that the Iran Summit wouldn’t be the occasion to resolve the Syria violence, nor would it provide the platform for statements of an extreme nature,” said the sources.
On Syria, there was a low-key exchange between a representative of a country and the Syrians, but it ended at that. The issue of formulating a position on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan saw the excising of a couple of sentences to the satisfaction of the NAM members. Similarly, the coup in Paraguay saw a divergence of opinion, but a similar effort saw all sides concurring on the final paragraph.
The sources asserted that NAM continued to be relevant in the post-Cold War period, though the approach had changed. Today, instead of agonising if NAM was a natural ally of the then Soviet Union, it was now focused on pressing global issues such as poverty eradication and global governance. Also, the addition of two more members since the preceding summit in Egypt showed that nations still thought NAM was a useful forum.
Keywords: NAM summit, Non-Aligned Movement Summit
Our first prime minister , esteemed Panditji did play a historic role in the nonaligned
Movement in the world and one hopes that the Tehran meet will again give momentum to
The nonaligned movement in the world. It is true that there was cold war between USA and
Russia during the period when Panditji was the prime minister of this country. The cold
War of yesteryears has vanished now, and the nonaligned movement is still relevant as
there is still cold war in a different plane altogether and the peace loving nations in the
World will have to formulate new strategies for the betterment of many countries and the
World population to strengthen peace in the world, from the terrorist forces, who pose a
Real threat to the peace loving people of the world.
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