Title: Non-Aligned Movement - Wikipedia
Headings: Non-Aligned Movement
Non-Aligned Movement
Contents
History
Origins and the Cold War
Cuba's Role
Post-Cold War
Organizational structure and membership
Policies and ideology
Current activities and positions
Criticism of US policy
Self-determination of Puerto Rico
Self-determination of Western Sahara
Sustainable development
Reforms of the UN
South–South cooperation
Cultural diversity and human rights
Summits
Chairperson
Members, observers and guests
Current members
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Former members
Observers
Countries
Organisations
Guests
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: At the time, Afghanistan was also an active member of the Nonaligned Movement. At the United Nations, Nonaligned members voted 56 to 9, with 26 abstaining, to condemn the Soviet Union. Cuba in fact was deeply in debt financially and politically to Moscow and voted against the resolution. It lost its reputation as nonaligned in the Cold War. Castro, instead of becoming a high-profile spokesman for the Movement, remained quiet and inactive, and in 1983 leadership passed to India, which had abstained on the UN vote, though India maintained close ties with the Soviet Union and with the Soviet puppet regime in Kabul. Cuba lost its bid to become a member of the United Nations Security Council and its ambitions for a role in global leadership had totally collapsed. More broadly the Movement was deeply split over the Soviet–Afghan War in 1979. Although Moscow's allies supported the Soviet intervention, other members of the movement (particularly predominantly Muslim states) condemned it. Post-Cold War
Because the Non-Aligned Movement was formed as an attempt to thaw out the Cold War, it has struggled to find relevance since the Cold War ended. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, a founding member, its membership was suspended in 1992 at the regular Ministerial Meeting of the Movement, held in New York during the regular yearly session of the General Assembly of the United Nations.