Leaders and representatives from 25 countries met in Belgrade to coordinate a foreign policy outside the Cold War blocs. The conference built on Asian-African solidarity and Bandung, while participants differed over how to balance non-alignment with support for liberation movements and national interests. It gave newly independent countries a platform to resist being treated as passive terrain in superpower rivalry.
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What did the Belgrade summit seek to strengthen?
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The summit coordinated an independent foreign-policy platform for participating states.
The Belgrade summit aimed to make newly independent states subordinate to either Cold War bloc.
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It sought a platform for foreign policy outside the blocs, even as members held diverse views.