On May 4, 2020, PM Modi will attend the NAM Summit representing India through a video conference. The Summit is to discuss COVID-19 challenges and solutions.
Highlights
- This is the first NAM Summit being attended by the Mr Modi since he was sworn in as the Prime Minister in 2014.
- Mr Modi both the summits as PM in 2016 and 2019.
- The 2016 summit was held in Venezuels and 2019 in Azerbaijan.
- In 2012, the former PM Manmohan Singh participated at the Tehran NAM summit.
NAM Summits
- The NAM is Non-Aligned Movement forum of 120 developing countries.
- After the United Nations, NAM is the largest grouping of states.
- The summit was agreed to convene at the Bandung Conference in 1955.
- NAM was established in 1961 through initiatives of Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
- The main aim of the summit is to build aspiration towards collective security, terminating dominance of one country over other and expansion of freedom.
- The NAM also aimed to soften the cold war that was building among the developed nations.
Principles of NAM
- The five major principles of NAM include mutual respect, mutual non-aggression, equality and mutual benefit, mutual non-interference in domestic affairs and peaceful coexistence.
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