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Vice President at NAM Summit
October 27 , 2019
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- Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu represented India at the 18th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25 and 26.
- This marked the second time in a row that PM Modi missed the summit.
- He had earlier missed the 2016 meet held at Venezuela.
- Since 1961, the Indian Prime Minister has always attended the NAM summit.
- Exception: In 1979, when Chaudhury Charan Singh was the caretaker PM and hence missed it.
- Modi’s absence indicates a decisive move away from past practice at the 60-year-old organisation.
- The theme for the XVIII NAM Summit is “Upholding the Bandung Principles to ensure concerted and adequate response to the challenges of contemporary world”.
Bandung Principles
- The Ten Principles of Bandung was a political statement encapsulating the need to promote world peace and cooperation between countries.
- They were formulated at the Asian-African Conference in 1955.
About NAM
- India is one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
- NAM was established in 1961 with 29 members.
- It has since grown to 120 members to become one of the largest groupings of nation-states.
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