{"id":19624,"date":"2024-01-21T07:24:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T01:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19624"},"modified":"2025-04-05T18:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T13:19:51","slug":"nam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nam\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About NAM Summit<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The 19th NAM Summit was held under\u00a0Uganda&#8217;s leadership in Kampala. Uganda has taken over as chair from Azerbaijan, to run until 2027.<\/li>\n<li>Theme: \u2018Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence.\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Key discussions at the summit:\n<ul>\n<li>Israel-Hamas war<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s \u201cVishwaa Mitra\u201d initiative<\/li>\n<li>A call for multipolar world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Non-Aligned Movement<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is\u00a0an alliance of developing nations that refuses to identify with any major superpower.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0established in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. Whereas it started with the\u00a0Bandung<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/event\/Bandung-Conference\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Conference<\/a> held in Indonesia in 1955.<\/li>\n<li>Current members:\n<ul>\n<li>120 countries: 53 from Africa, 39 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean and two from Europe.<\/li>\n<li>It also includes the non-UN member state of Palestine, 17 other observer countries, and 10 observer organizations.<\/li>\n<li>India is one of the founding members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After the United Nations, NAM is the\u00a0second-largest grouping of nations.<\/li>\n<li>NAM\u00a0does not have a permanent secretariat or a formal founding charter, act, or treaty<\/li>\n<li>The summit usually\u00a0takes place every three years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Cold War ?<\/h3>\n<p>It was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started after the end of World War II in 1945 and lasted to 1991.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/explainers\/what-is-the-nam-summit-that-s-jaishankar-is-attending-in-uganda-13636742.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>At NAM Summit, Jaishankar highlights India as Vishwa Mitra.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)     is an alliance of developing nations that refuses to identify with any major superpower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}