1961 Preparatory Meeting of the Non-Alignment Countries

1969 Belgrade Non-Aligned Consultative Meeting

1961 Preparatory Meeting of the Non-Alignment Countries
Host country	United Arab Republic
Date	5–12 June 1961
Cities	Cairo
Chair	Gamal Abdel Nasser (President of Egypt)

1961 Preparatory Meeting of the Non-Alignment Countries was held in Cairo, United Arab Republic (today Egypt) from 5 to 12 June 1961 to discuss the goals of a policy of nonalignment ahead of the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement which will take place in September of the same year in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia.^[1] The goal of the meeting was to set common criteria for attendance at the Belgrade Conference with Cairo attendees division into two fractions of “inclusives” led by Nehru's government of India and “exclusives” led by the Casablanca Group.^[2] Group led by India wanted for future summit to welcome neutral countries in Europe and if feasible multiple Latin American countries and for the event to focus on what was perceived by Indian representatives as grand and overarching issues of global consequence instead of more parochial concerns.^[2] Cuban and Guinean representatives were dominant in the “exclusives” group which wanted to focus on the issue of decolonization and criticism of the West Bloc.^[2]

References

^ n.a. (n.d.). "Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)". Nuclear Threat Initiative. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c Rakove, Robert B. (2014). "Two roads to Belgrade: the United States, Great Britain, and the first nonaligned conference". Cold War History. 14 (3): 337–357. doi:10.1080/14682745.2013.871528.

Non-Aligned Movement Summits

Summits

1961 (Belgrade)
1964 (Cairo)
1970 (Lusaka)
1973 (Algiers)
1976 (Colombo)
1979 (Havana)
~~1982 (Baghdad~~ cancelled due to Iran–Iraq War)
1983 (New Delhi)
1986 (Harare)
1989 (Belgrade)
1992 (Jakarta)
1995 (Cartagena)
1998 (Durban)
2003 (Kuala Lumpur)
2006 (Havana)
2009 (Sharm El Sheikh)
2012 (Tehran)
2016 (Porlamar)
2019 (Baku)
2024 (Kampala)

Ministerial meetings

Preparatory	1961 (Cairo) 1964 (Colombo) 1970 (Dar es Salaam) 1970 (New Delhi) 1970 (Lusaka) 1972 (Georgetown) 1972 (Kuala Lumpur)
Foreign Ministers	1972 (Georgetown) 1975 (Lima) 1978 (Havana) 1978 (Belgrade) 1981 (New Delhi) 1985 (Luanda) 1988 (Nicosia) 1994 (Cairo) 2000 (Cartagena) 2002 (Durban) 2004 (Durban) 2008 (Tehran) 2009 (Havana) 2011 (Bali) 2014 (Algiers) 2018 (Baku)
Culture Ministers	1983 (Pyongyang)
Standing Committee	1972 (Georgetown) 1973 (Kabul)
Coordinating Bureau	1974 (Algiers) 1975 (Havana) 1976 (Algiers) 1979 (Maputo) 1979 (Colombo) 1979 (New York) 1980 (Algiers) 1980 (New York) 1995 (Bandung) 2006 Putrajaya) 2008 (New York) 2008 (New York) 2009 (New York)
Mediterranean	1984 (Valletta) 1987 (Brijuni Islands) 1990 (Algiers)
On Palestine	1982 (Kuwait City) 1982 (Havana) 1982 (Nicosia) 1990 (Tunis) 1993 (New York) 2001 (Pretoria) 2004 (Putrajaya) 2017 (New York)
UN Sessions	24th UN Session (New York, 1969) 36th UN Session (New York, 1981) 2000 NAM Foreign Ministers/Heads of Delegation Meeting (New York)
Other	1969 Non-Aligned Consultative Meeting (Belgrade, 1969) 50th Anniversary Meeting (Belgrade, 2011) 60th Anniversary Meeting (Belgrade, 2021)