- Venue: Tehran (Iran)
- Date: 26–31 August 2012
- Theme: ‘Lasting peace through joint global governance.’
- Previous Summit: Sharm-El-Sheik in 2009
ABOUT NAM:
- The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement had 120 members and 17 observer countries.
- The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's president, Josip Broz Tito; India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Indonesia's first president, Sukarno.
PRESENT STATUS:
- Most nations now regard NAM as a bit of sham. Born in 1961, when the Cold War was red-hot, the movement had lost its clout long before the world turned uni-polar with the US emerging as the sole superpower in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Iran assumes 3-year presidency, hopes for solidarity on sanctions imposed by the West on the Islamic Republic to punish it for its nuclear activities.
- Syrian crisis dominated talks
- Egypt's new president, Mohammad Mursi, the first Egyptian leader to visit Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, gave the meeting diplomatic heft.
INDIA’S PRESENCE:
- India’s presence at the summit gave a boost to the sagging and tattered image of Iran which is struggling to regain international credibility and approval after the UN and the US imposed crippling sanctions to thwart its nuclear ambitions.
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