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Our beloved Prime Minister,
Jawaharlal Nehru, one of the architects of this Movement, said, “Non-alignment
is freedom of action which is a part of independence.” He wanted
us to judge issues “in full freedom and without any pre-conceived
partisan bias.” This vision must continue to shape our perspectives
in the years ahead.
We live in an increasingly interdependent world. The challenge ahead
is to promote a balanced and equitable management of this interdependence
of nations. As globalization progresses, national and regional boundaries
are becoming less and less relevant. Our problems are global, so must
our solutions be.
The United Nations played a creative and a critical leadership role
in shaping the international agenda in the past. It has to do so again.
Reforming the UN and revitalizing the UN General Assembly is a pressing
imperative. The developing world must find its due representation
among the permanent members of the UN Security Council. We must join
hands with other like minded countries to promote democratization
of processes of global governance, ushering in a new global polity,
based on the rule of law, reason and equity.
We, the members of the Non-Aligned Movement constitute more than half
of the membership of the United Nations. Our collective strength is
unmatched, and we must now unite behind a common and a fundamentally
new vision of “inclusive globalization”.
In economic affairs, the biblical saying "to him that hath shall
be given" has wide applicability. Globalisation must be accompanied
by a more balanced and equitable distribution of its benefits. Otherwise
the global response to challenges will remain uneven and partial at
best.
As non-aligned countries, we led the struggle against attempts to
divide the world into ideologically irreconciliable blocs. We espoused
peaceful co-existence and the higher cause of humanity beyond racial
divisions. Today, we again confront the danger of the world being
split along an artificially created cultural and religious divide.
The Non-Aligned Movement, encompassing as it does, every religion
professed by mankind, every ethnic group and ideological persuasion,
is uniquely placed today, once again, to play the role of a bridge
of understanding. Our cooperative world view is in itself a rejection
of the notion of a “clash of civilizations”. Rather, our
message to the world should be that it is possible to work for a “confluence
of civilizations”.
If NAM is to be relevant in today´s circumstances, it cannot
afford to equivocate on the subject of terrorism. A message must emanate
from us that we are united in our
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desire to fight and eliminate
the scourge of terrorism. We cannot allow the forces of intolerance
and extremism to distract the world´s attention from the vital
concerns of our people – the problems of poverty, ignorance and
disease.
The emerging fault lines of the new ideological divide are nowhere
more apparent today than in West Asia. We have just been witness to
a tragic and pointless war in Lebanon. It has only sharpened the sense
of alienation and resentment, brutalizing a country that had just
begun to reclaim its heritage of inter-ethnic and inter-religious
harmony after years of conflict. I would recommend that we constitute
a suitable high level group for West Asia. The group could undertake
a sustained mission to promote understanding in the region and assist
in the implementation of the agreed roadmap towards a comprehensive
peace. The international community must address more fully its responsibility
to resolve this issue and bring to an end once and for all the long
years of suffering of the Palestinian people.
In 1988 Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had presented to the UN General
Assembly a detailed and credible Action Plan for Nuclear Disarmament.
I believe the time has come for NAM to once again assume an active
and leading role in advocating nuclear disarmament. India has prepared
a Working Paper on Nuclear Disarmament which will be circulated as
a document at the UNGA Session this year. We would invite fellow members
of NAM to join us in our efforts to achieve universal nuclear disarmament
and a world free of all nuclear weapons.
At the First World Summit on the Environment, Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi declared, “there is no first, second or third world; we
are all part of One World”. The Non-Aligned Movement should take
the lead in articulating a “new paradigm of energy security”,
that addresses the needs of all peoples and of our planet.
India proposes the establishment of a NAM Working Group on Energy
Security to draw up a NAM Action Plan for Energy Security to address
the energy challenges of the future. India would be prepared to coordinate
such a group.
African countries form the largest single grouping in NAM as well
as in the U.N.G.A. The future of our planet is inextricably linked
to the destiny of Africa. I believe this is an opportune time for
us to take a major NAM initiative on Africa.
The NAM initiative would focus on human resource and agricultural
development. It would involve setting up of a mechanism, in cooperation
with the African Union, to pool our assets for investment in the future
of Africa. We would be prepared to work together with other interested
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If we wish to revitalize
the Non-Aligned Movement the collective message of our Summit must
be seen as being central to the success of global efforts to deal
with urgent transnational issues – be it terrorism, pandemics,
energy security or the environment. As a group we have rejected extremes.
We must spread the message of Gandhiji, the apostle of peace. Our
voice must then be one of moderation, harmony and reason. If such
is the voice of more than half of the people of the world, it will
prevail. And, it will guide the destiny of our planet.
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Non
Aligned Movement Summit Held 2006
The Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM) was established when the leaders of 25 Non-Aligned countries
plus 3 observers countries attended the 1 st Conference of Heads
of State or Government of the NAM (NAM Summit) at Belgrade,
Yugoslavia from 1-6 September 1961. The establishment of the
NAM was very much the brainchild of Yugoslavian President Tito,
Egyptian President Nasser and Indian Prime Minister Nehru and
coupled with the consolidated support of Indonesian President
Soekarno and Ghanaian President Nkrumah. In essence, the NAM
was the product of the Cold War. It was established out of fear
of nuclear holocaust perceived as the eventual outcome of the
Cold War between the US-led Western bloc against the USSR-led
Eastern bloc which dominated the mainstream of world politics
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NAM Summits at a glance
1st
Conference - Belgrade, September
1-6, 1961
2nd Conference -
Cairo, October 5-10, 1964
3rd Conference -
Lusaka, September 8-10, 1970
4th Conference - Algiers,
September 5-9, 1973
5th Conference -
Colombo, August 16-19, 1976
6th Conference -
Havana, September 3-9, 1979
7th Conference -
New Delhi, March 7-12, 1983
8th Conference -
Harare, September 1-6, 1986
9th Conference -
Belgrade, September 4-7, 1989
10th Conference -
Jakarta, September 1-7, 1992
11th Conference -
Cartagena de Indias, October 18-20, 1995
12th Conference -
Durban, 29 August- 3 September 1998
13th Conference -
Kuala Lumpur, 20-25 February 2003
14th Conference - Havana,
Cuba, 11-16,September 2006
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