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- The PM of India attended the NAM Summit representing India through a video conference.
- It has been convened at the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, in his capacity as current chair of the Movement.
- The title of the summit is “We stand together against COVID-19”.
- This is the first NAM Summit being attended by Modi since he was sworn in as the Prime Minister in 2014.
- The 2016 summit was held in Venezula and 2019 summit was in Azerbaijan.
- In 2012, the former PM Manmohan Singh participated at the Tehran NAM summit at Iran.
About NAM
- The NAM is Non-Aligned Movement forum of 120 developing countries.
- It is not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
- After the United Nations, NAM is the largest grouping of states.
- The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations' members and contain 55% of the world population.
- The summit was agreed to convene at the Bandung Conference in 1955.
- It was established in 1961.
- The key people in this initiative were Indian PM Jawaharlal Nehru, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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