India’s External Affairs Minister Dr. S Jaishankar is about to symbolize India on the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Uganda’s capital Kampala subsequent month. Scheduled from January seventeenth to twentieth, 2024, the nineteenth version of the NAM summit might be preceded by an important overseas ministerial assembly from fifteenth January.

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Additionally, the African nation will host the Third South Summits and G77 assembly from January twenty first to twenty third.

At the 2019 NAM summit in Azerbaijan, and the 2016 NAM Venezuela summits, India was represented on the Vice President degree. This might be External Affairs Minister’s 2nd go to to the nation in a 12 months. He was within the nation in April 2023 as properly throughout which he inaugurated the primary overseas campus of India’s National Forensic Science University (NFSU). Located in Uganda’s Jinja, the main target of the Indian authorities is to construct capability in Africa. Remember, this 12 months, India additionally opened the campus of IIT Madras in Tanzania’s Zanzibar.

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When the main points of the summit, together with the dates have been introduced in November, Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni stated that the “summit will provide a platform for global cooperation and solidarity and for advancing our common goals. Uganda is prepared to showcase its hospitality and contribute to a successful summit”. The summit will happen at Speke Resort Munyonyo conference centre.

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Uganda would be the chair of the NAM grouping from 2024-2027. The African nation was chosen to host the nineteenth Non-Aligned Movement Summit on October 19, 2019, through the assembly held in Baku, Azerbaijan.

It’s price mentioning that Uganda President Museveni declared that no Covid assessments might be performed through the NAM summit. He said, “After consulting with certain NAM stakeholders, we discovered that some of the delegates prefer not to have their DNA exposed.” 

Initially established through the Cold War to symbolize the pursuits of growing nations and international locations who didn’t need to be a part of any Western or soviet bloc, NAM has redefined its mission post-1991.

With the geopolitical panorama witnessing a notable shift, the motion is steering its focus towards fostering South-South cooperation, offering a platform for nations to collaborate independently of conventional alliances. India is likely one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement and hosted the seventh NAM Summit in 1983 in New Delhi.

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The membership of NAM right this moment contains 53 international locations from Africa, 40 from Asia, 26 from Latin America and the Caribbean, and one from Europe (Belarus). There are 18 international locations and 10 worldwide organizations which can be Observers at NAM. The grouping is 2nd solely to the UN when it comes to membership of nations, making it one of many largest groupings on the planet.