Title: India and the Non-Aligned Movement - Wikipedia
Headings: India and the Non-Aligned Movement
India and the Non-Aligned Movement
Contents
Origin of non-alignment in India
Early developments
Non-aligned response to Sino-Indian conflict
Non-alignment and Indo-Pakistan conflicts
21st century
See also
References
Notelist
References
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Further reading
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Content: That does not, on the other hand, involve any lack of close relationships with other countries. Some saw confusion in these speeches and the West questioned Nehru's "neutrality"; in the United States in 1949, Nehru said; " we are not blind to reality nor do we acquiesce in any challenge to man's freedom from whatever quarters it may come. Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression take place, we cannot and shall not be neutral". Over the years, Nehru made a number of comments on non-alignment; in 1957 he said, "Non-alignment seems to me as the natural consequence of an independent nation functioning according to its own rights. After all alignment means being regimented to do something you do not like and thereby giving up certain measures of independent judgement and thinking." Tito, Nasser, and Nehru at the Conference of Non-Aligned Nations held in Belgrade 1961
PM Singh and the MOS for External Affairs at the XIVth NAM's Business Forum in Cuba, 2006. President Aliyev and Vice President Naidu at the 18th Summit of Non-Aligned Movement in Baкu, 2019
Indian non-alignment was a product of the Cold War, a bipolar world and India's colonial experience and the non-violent Indian independence struggle.