First Summit Meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement Archives

The collection consists of 76 files of textual archives, 242 photographs, 1 audio archive, and 15 films. They document a purpose of exchanging ideas on international problems with a view to contributing more effectively to world peace, security and peaceful cooperation among peoples, freedom, equality and social justice for the promotion of prosperity, and narrowing the blocs’ antagonism. The First Summit Meeting of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia initiated by Ghana, India, Indonesia, United Arab Republic, and Yugoslavia. The meeting signified the active role of the Third World Countries to reduce the world tensions, calling for the end of colonialism, imperialism, and racism, as well as the promotion of peaceful co-existence and world peace. During its 60 years of existence, the Movement has gathered are 120 countries, 17 observers, 10 international organizations –equal to 4,3 billion of people (57% of the world population), and 54,53 million km2 areas of the world.