NAM Summit - GS questions based on daily current affairs

ANSWER: Peace, Sovereignty and Solidarity for Development

Explanation:

• Theme for the next three years – “Peace, Sovereignty and Solidarity for Development” – is in congruence with NAM’s founding principles.
• Sustainable development is both the bedrock and the highest aspiration of NAM’s efforts; hence the importance of solidarity that this Movement attaches to achieving it.
• The other two elements of Nam’s triad of objectives – Peace and Sovereignty – are a pre-requisite for development.
• A peaceful global environment is essential for development and for development cooperation; such cooperation must be undertaken in exercise of the sovereign will of each member of the community of nations. The interdependence of the three is thus evident and essential.

ANSWER: Venezuela

Explanation:

• The 17^th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit was in Margarita Island, Venezuela.
• The 16^th 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.