Where was the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held?

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  1. Yugoslavia
  2. New York
  3. Canada
  4. Japan

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NAM (Non-Aligned Movement- NAM) 

  • The concept of the Cold War went to laid held in Indonesia in the background (Cold War) 'Bandung Conference (Bandung Conference), 1955 during'.
  • After World War II, during the Cold War, most of the world's countries were divided into two factions (led by the communist Soviet Union and capitalist America).  
  • At the same time, colonial rule began to end in most parts of the world and many new countries emerged on the world map in Asia, Africa, South America, and other regions. 
  • At such a time, NAM provided a strong basis for these countries to increase mutual cooperation while keeping an independent foreign policy by staying separate from both factions.  
  • Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslavian President Joseph Broz Tito, and Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser played an important role in the establishment of this group, along with the then Prime Minister of Ghana Wamay Nkrumah and President of Indonesia Sukarno also adopted NAM. was supported. 
  • The first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in Belgrade (Yugoslavia) in the year 1961, 25 countries of the world participated in this conference.
  • At present 120 countries of the world are active members of this group.

Thus, it is right to say that the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement was held in Yugoslavia. 

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