the first non aligned summit took place at belgrade.
where did the first non aligned summit take place?
belgrade
bhutanese participation in international organisations at various levels increased. personally, wangchuck attended the non-aligned and saarc summits until 1997, travelling to colombo in 1976 for 8th non-aligned summit; havana in 1979 for 6th non-aligned summit; new delhi in 1983 for 5th saarc summit and 1995 for 8th saarc summit; harare in 1986 for 8th non-aligned summit; kathmandu in 1987 for 3rd saarc summit; islamabad in 1988 for 4th saarc summit; belgrade in 1989 for 9th non-aligned summit; malé in 1990 for 5th saarc summit, and dhaka in 1993 for 7th saarc summit.





















































section::::diplomatic expansion.
jigme singye wangchuck
at the same time as these relations were occurring, algeria had taken an active stance in the non-aligned movement. in 1973, houari boumediène hosted the non-aligned movement in algiers. according to historians it was ‘with the observation that recent co-operation between moscow and washington looked very much like a superpower ‘pretension to reign over the world” . boumediène cooperated closely with moscow and washington on bilateral levels but his view, iterated by hosting the non-aligned summit, was not one of supporting either side in the cold war. one of the main points emphasized at bandung, the birthplace of the non aligned movement, was that the third world countries should take a stand against colonialism and neo-colonialism. in a post-colonial algeria, subscribing to this view was a necessity. by the mid-1970s, algeria was fully engaged in the zenith of the non-aligned movement, wary of imperial powers which looked down upon the third world. nevertheless, presidential visits, diplomatic ties, and cordial bilateral relations continued with the two superpowers.
algeria–russia relations