Health and Family Welfare Minister participated in a meeting with Ministers of Health of the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement) Countries. Dr. Tedros, Director-General of the World Health Organisation was also present in the meeting.
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The Bandung Principles and the Membership Criteria of the Non-Aligned Movement function as admission criteria both for new members and observers.
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a forum of 120 developing world states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
After the United Nations, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide.
Drawing on the principles agreed at the Bandung Conference in 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was established in 1961 in Belgrade, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia through an initiative of the Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Ghanaian President Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesian President Sukarno, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito.
Its Coordinating Bureau, also based at the UN, is located in New York.
India played an important role in the multilateral movements of colonies and newly independent countries that wanted to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement.
The country’s place in national diplomacy, its significant size and its economic growth turned India into one of the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement.