What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
Q: What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
A: The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is an international organization (group of countries) who do not want to be officially aligned with or against any major power bloc (group of countries).
Q: When was the movement started?
A: The group was started in Belgrade in 1961.
Q: Who were the five leaders that created the movement?
A: The movement was created by Yugoslavia's President, Josip Broz Tito, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesia's first President, Sukarno.
Q: What did these five leaders believe about developing countries?
A: These five leaders believed that developing countries should not help either the Western or Eastern blocs in the Cold War. They also believed that developing countries should not be Capitalist or Communist, but should try to find a different way to help their people.
Q: What is stated in the Havana Declaration of 1979?
A: The Havana Declaration of 1979 said that the purpose of the organization is to help countries keep their "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries" in their "struggle against Imperialism, Colonialism, Neocolonialism, Racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation domination interference or hegemony as well as against great power and bloc politics." This means that they wanted to govern their countries without the main capitalist powers nor the major socialist states telling them how.
Q: How many members does NAM have today?
A: In 2019 ,the Non-Aligned Movement had 120 members and 27 observers.
Q: How much population does NAM represent today?
A:The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement are nearly two-thirds of United Nations's members and 55% of world population.
