Question

What is India’s role in NAM?

Answer 1

 India’s role in NAM:
(i) Jawahar Lai Nehru played a leading role in the evolution of NAM. It was Jawahar Lai Nehru who elaborated refined and popularised the concept of non alignment. Nehru along with Nasser of Egypt and Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia played the leading role in the evolution, establishment and consolidation of Non Aligned movement.
(ii) Nehru, before independence convened the Asian Relations conference in New Delhi in March 1947, which was instrumental in forging unity among Asian nations.
(iii) He enunciated the five principles of peaceful co-existence named Panchsheel. These principle are also the core principle of the NAM.
(iv) A policy of friendship, cooperation and world peace was pursued under him. He pleaded for disarmament as the only means of preserving peace in the world.