EVENT INFORMATION

1
September
1961

Belgrade summit convenes the Non-Aligned Movement

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📅 1 September 1961 📍 International, Joegoslavië

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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Personen in deze gebeurtenis

Josip Broz Tito

Jawaharlal Nehru

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Kwame Nkrumah

Organisaties in dit Evenement

Non-Aligned Movement

Belgrade Conference