Venezuela holds 17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit

Q.  17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit is held in
- Published on 19 Sep 16

a. Madagascar
b. Venezuela
c. Egypt
d. Cuba

ANSWER: Venezuela
 
  • The 17th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit was in Margarita Island, Venezuela.
  • The 16th one took place in 2012 in Iran.
  • The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states which are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement has 120 members and 15 observers.
  • The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely conceived by India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Indonesia's first president, Sukarno; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito.
  • All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern Blocs in the Cold War. The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat V. K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.

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