Founding of Non-Aligned Movement

The Non-Aligned Movement is a group of states that declared that they would not formally align with or against either of the major power blocs during the Cold War. Its roots lie in the Bandung Conference of Asian and African states in 1955, and the movement was formally launched at a summit in Belgrade in 1961, led by Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Members, most of them newly independent, sought to preserve their sovereignty, oppose colonialism and promote development. The movement now has over a hundred members, and its influence has declined since the end of the Cold War.

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