Seventeenth NAM Summit opens on Margarita Island

Foreign ministers coordinated positions on Palestine, Syria, disarmament and development. Such meetings kept the movement active between summits and gave smaller states a forum for collective...

Ministers met under the theme of solidarity for peace and development. They linked national sovereignty with collective bargaining on debt, development and reform of global institutions, while...

The JCPOA set restrictions and monitoring on Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief. NAM’s support for peaceful nuclear technology and opposition to unilateral coercion formed...

The agenda established 17 Sustainable Development Goals and renewed the principle that development is a universal public responsibility. NAM and G77 states had pressed for poverty eradication,...

The agreement set a global framework for climate action and recognized equity and common but differentiated responsibilities. Developing states’ demands for finance, adaptation support and...

The declaration called for peace, sovereignty and solidarity for development. It also reflected tensions between the movement’s collective language and member governments’ differing domestic and...

The treaty was adopted by 122 states, many from the Global South, after years of frustration with the slow pace of nuclear disarmament. It challenged the legitimacy of nuclear weapons, although...

Ministers prepared for the next leaders’ summit and discussed solidarity, international law and the challenges facing developing countries. Azerbaijan’s chairmanship sought to position NAM as a...

Leaders gathered under the theme of upholding Bandung principles amid geopolitical rivalry and conflicts over occupation and sovereignty. Baku also took over the chairmanship from Venezuela, setting...

The declaration reaffirmed sovereignty, non-interference, peaceful settlement and the right of peoples to self-determination. It addressed Palestine and called for stronger multilateralism, while...