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• The 19th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit will start from 19th January, 2024 in Kampala, Uganda, and run for two days.

About The Entire Summit

• The Indian delegation will be led by Dr. S. Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister (EAM) and there will be discussions at the ministerial and senior official levels prior to the summit.
• India is represented at the NAM Foreign Ministers’ meeting, which takes place ahead of the NAM Summit, by Minister of State for External Affairs Dr. Rajkumar Ranjan Singh.
• Shri V. Muraleedharan, Minister of State for External Affairs, will represent India at the G-77 Third South Summit, which takes place in Kampala, Uganda, on January 21 and 22.
• Upon arriving in Kampala, Dr. Jaishankar had a meeting with Amb Tete Antonio, the foreign minister of They talked about the growing cooperation between India and Angola and the larger Africa-India partnership.
• Jaishankar also met with Moosa Zameer, the foreign minister of the Maldives, and the two ministers discussed the current high-level talks regarding the withdrawal of Indian military personnel.
• They also talked about working together within SAARC and NAM and finishing up ongoing development projects in the Maldives.
• On January 21, Dr. Jaishankar will depart for an official three-day visit to Nigeria will co-chair the 6th India-Nigeria Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) with his Nigerian counterpart.

What is NAM?

• A group of states that aimed to maintain their independence and did not formally align with either the US or the USSR is known as the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM);
• Established in 1961, the goal of NAM has been to “establish an autonomous route in global politics that would not lead to member States turning into pawns in the conflicts between the great powers;”
• It is the second biggest grouping of various countries after the United Nations;
• NAM History:
  • The idea of a nation’s policies not being in line with others dates back to the Congress of Vienna (1814–15), which recognized Switzerland’s neutrality—the nation’s pledge to stay out of other people’s disputes;
  • The Asia-Africa Bandung Conference, held in Indonesia in 1955, provided the impetus for the group’s fundamental idea;
  • This movement began in the 1950s as an attempt by certain nations to stay out of the divisive Cold War environment between the pro-American capitalist nations of NATO and the Soviet communist nations of the Warsaw Pact.
  • The phrase “non-aligned movement” was initially used at the fifth conference in 1976, wherein the participating nations were referred to as “members of the movement” and the goal of non-alignment was to preserve one’s capacity for impartial judgment and political freedom.
  • The Havana Declaration of 1979 stated that the organization’s mission was to protect “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of non-aligned countries” in their fight against imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign subjugation.
• Contribution of India in NAM: The NAM was founded in 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on the initiative of Indian Prime Minister Nehru, the Yugoslav President, the Egyptian President, the Ghanaian President, and the Indonesian President and it resulted in the first Conference of Heads of State or Governments of Non-Aligned Countries.

India-Angola Relations

• Relationships between Angola, one of the continent’s largest oil producers, and India stretch back to Angola’s pre-independence days and are supported by a thriving energy partnership.
• From the time Angola gained independence in 1975, India stood by its fellow country in its fight for freedom from Portuguese colonial rule. The Indian leadership has maintained strong ties with Angola’s ruling political elite ever since.
• In 1985, diplomatic ties were established between India and Angola and worked together in several multilateral forums.
• Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made the first VVIP visit from India to Angola in May 1986, and Angolan President José Eduardo dos Santos made the reciprocal trip in April 1987.
• Namaste India, an Indian cultural and culinary festival, has also been arranged by the Indian Embassy in Angola to mark 75 years of India’s independence. Beginning on November 4, 2022, the festivities lasted for a week.
• Indian Community in Angola: There are about 4000 Indians in Angola, mostly working as professionals in the offshore oil fields and as employees in the businesses owned by Indians who are primarily involved in trading, supermarkets, catering, and other services; these individuals also work in industries that deal with plastics, metal, steel, and clothing. Indian companies are working on several projects in the non-oil sector, including scrap metal, steel, trading, plastics, retail, hospitality, and other services.

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