“NON ALIGNED MOVEMENT”

SUBMITTED TOWARDS THE FULFILMENT OF THE

COURSE TITLED -
POLITICAL SCIENCE-2

Submitted to: Submitted by:

Mr. Vinay Kumar Sulabh Gupta

(Assistant Professor of Political Science ) 2nd year 4th semester

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 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

Aims and Objectives:

The aim of the project is to present a detailed study of the topic NON ALIGN MOVEMENT
through decisions and suggestions and different writings. The aim has been to come to a
conclusion very much indigenous.

Scope and Limitations:

Though the topic is NON ALIGN MOVEMENT an immense project and pages can be written
over the topic but because of certain restrictions and limitations we might not have dealt with
the topic in great detail. Cause for calling conference is dealt in detail.

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The method of writing followed in the course of this research paper is primarily analytical. The
researcher has followed Uniform method of citation throughout the course of this research
paper.

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION............................................................................... 05
2. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND....................................................... 06
3. ARTICLE IN CONSTITUTION....................................................... 08
4. HOW TO ACQUIRE CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA.............................10
5. OCI........................................................................................................12
6. CONCLUSION....................................................................................14
7. BILIOGRAPHY..................................................................................15

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INTRODUCTION

Non aligned movement is an international organisation of states considering themselves not

formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. It was founded in 1950s; as of 2007 it
has 118 members. The purpose of the organisation as stated in the Havana declaration of 1979
is to ensure the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non
aligned counties in their struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neo- colonialism, racism
and all form of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well
as against great power and block politics. They represent nearly two third of united nation
members and comprises 55% of the world population.

Important members have included Yugoslavia, Brazil, India, Egypt, Indonesia, Cuba, Pakistan,
South Africa, Iran, Malaysia. Brazil has never been a formal member of the movement, but
shares many of the aim with NAM and frequently send observer to Non Alignment Movement
Submit.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The after effects of the second world-war were actually the reason for the origin of non-
alignment, which came into the scene after the victory of the Allied Powers in the Second
World-War. Each of the allies, the British, the Americans and the Russians were anxious to
enlarge and expand its area of influence in the new shape of Europe. During the Cold War,
between the USSR and Eastern Europe on the one hand and the USA and Western Europe on
the other, the world split into two camps. However, during the 1960s a third camp, the non-
aligned movement emerged. Made up of countries that had gained independence from the
European empires in the period after World War II, the movement tried to act as a stabilizing
force between the two superpower blocs, as well as giving its members a more powerful voice
through unity. So basically the theory of non-alignment rests on the principle of national
independence and self-reliance on one hand and international co-operation on the other. When
India got freedom, Russia was spreading its ideological concept over a large number of
countries, whereas America was entering into military alliance with newly emerging states.
But country like India successfully resisted such pressures because of her firm convictions and
practical reasons and did not join any of the blocks. This mature consideration gave birth to the
concept of non-alignment.

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NON ALIGNMENT AND COLD WAR

During the Cold War, members of the non-aligned movement were often the targets of US
imperialism and Soviet imperialism, as both the USA and Soviet Union tried to attract non-
aligned countries into their respective camps. Monetary aid was given to development projects,
such as the Soviet funding of Egypt's Aswan High Dam project during the 1960s. The non-
aligned movement was not a strongly unified group like the North Atlantic Treaty organisation
(NATO) or the Warsaw pact, and its members were weaker economically and militarily than
the superpower blocs. Therefore, although its members were able to increase their status
through unity and cooperative voting in the UN General Assembly, they were never able to
challenge the dominance of the two superpowers.

WORD ‘‘NON ALIGNMENT”

The term "Non-Alignment" was coined by V K Menon in his speech at UN in 1953 which was
later used by Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru during his speech in 1954
in Colombo, Sri Lanka. In this speech, Nehru described the five pillars to be used as a guide
for Sino-Indian relations, which were first put forth by Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai.
Called Panchsheel (five restraints), these principles would later serve as the basis of the Non-
Aligned Movement. The five principles were:

1. Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty

2. Mutual non-aggression
3. Mutual non-interference in domestic affairs
4. Equality and mutual benefit
5. Peaceful co-existence

Jawaharlal Nehru's concept of nonalignment brought India considerable international prestige

among newly independent states that shared India's concerns about the military confrontation
between the superpowers and the influence of the former colonial powers. New Delhi used
nonalignment to establish a significant role for itself as a leader of the newly independent world
in such multilateral organizations as the United Nations (UN) and the Nonaligned Movement.

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The signing of the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, and Cooperation between India and the Soviet
Union in 1971 and India's involvement in the internal affairs of its smaller neighbours in the
1970s and 1980s tarnished New Delhi's image as a nonaligned nation and led some observers
to note that in practice, nonalignment applied only to India's relations with countries outside
South Asia.

MEANING OF NON ALIGNMENT MOTION

Non-alignment presupposes participation in international politics without having bloc

affiliation. At the same time it does not mean passive neutrality. It is neither a policy of silence
for fear of others, nor a policy of isolation from the world politics. But it is rather a path of
taking decisions on all issues according to one's judgment of right and wrong. At seventh Non-
Aligned Summit-in New Delhi in March 1983, India's Prime Minister addressed a meeting by
saying, "Non-Alignment is too vague, not negative, not neutral and we cannot risk any shadow
on our freedom of judgment and action. We have no*quarrel with any group of nations. But
we speak out against injustice."

The non-aligned nations have grown into a great moral force in international politics. They
have stood separately as-well-as united for world peace, understanding and co-operation
amongst the nations of the world. They have criticized the wrong and unjust and supported the
right and just without fear and favour, they are in favour of disarmament and against social
discrimination.

The principle of non-alignment has received wider acceptance, while the second Non-
Aligned Conference held in October 1964 was attended by 47 participant countries and 10
observers. The third conference held at Lusaka in 1970 was attended by 54 participants and
11 observers and the fourth Summit Conference held at Algiers in December 1973 by 75
participants and 14 observers. The participant included countries not only from West Asia
and South Asia, but also from Africa, the Caribbean’s and Latin America. The eighth Non-
Aligned Summit held in Harare in Sept. 1986 was attended by over a hundred countries
representing all the continents and bulk of humanity.1

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The seventh Non-Aligned Summit Conference was held in New Delhi in March, 1983 and it
reiterated its decision on all important issues before the world community and appealed to the
big powers to co-operate willingly in the efforts of creating a new order in the world. 2

The policy of non-alignment has over the year won worldwide appreciation as a sound and
lasting instrument of world co-operation and world peace. Even the people who were once
against this policy have come round to view that greater peace, co-operation and prosperity are
possible not by military alliances and power blocs and sorting out of problems by resort to
arms, but by giving up die-hard colonial and imperialistic policies in favour of the policy of
"live and let live" by pursuing the attitude of friendship with all and ill-will towards none.

In certain quarters, the concept of non-alignment was misinterpreted. It was regarded as a

negative concept leading to isolation. But Jawaharlal Nehru cleared this concept in 1949 by
saying," When I say that we should not align ourselves with any power bloc, obviously it does
not mean that we should not be closer in our relations with some countries than with others.
That depends on entirely different factors chiefly economic, political, agricultural and many
other factors. These close relations will no doubt develop and we will encourage them to
develop, but we do not wish to place ourselves in a position, where poetically speaking, we are
just lined up with a particular group or bound up to in regard to our future 'foreign activities."
This statement made India's position very clear in so far as. the policy of non-alignment was
concerned.3

MOTIVE OF NON- ALIGNMENT

Every foreign policy has some definite motives, even though the basic motive of all foreign
policies is to promote the national interest. The chief motives of non- alignment are as follows:

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(1)Urge for independence in formulation of policy:

All the erstwhile colonies after throwing off the bondage were keen to secure their hard won
independence. As they were economically, politically, militarily quite weak and could not
compete favourably with the older and stronger nations, they felt it desirable to keep out of
power blocks so that they may be able to pursue an independent foreign policy.

(2)Desire to avoid involvement in general war:

The non aligned nation want to avoid entangling themselves in the various political feuds so
that they may be able concentrate fully on the economic and material development of their
people. The non-aligned nations are quite aware that in case of general war they will not be
able to escape its impact, yet they are determined to avoid direct involvement in such wars as
possible

(3) To help U.N. to function successfully:

Another motive of the non-aligned nations is to ensure that U.N functions successfully in the
fulfilling its objectives especially of preservation of world peace and economic development.
This is possible only if this forum is freed from the game of power politics. The non-aligned
states who constitute the third forces, can play a useful role in international politics by judging
each issue on its merits and finding valuable solution4.

NEGATIVE ELEMENTS

(1) Opposition to Cold War-----The new states were keen to avoid the cold war, as it was
considered to be highly dangerous development for international peace and security.
They felt that cold war can lead to a new war and hence wanted to seriously limit rather
virtually end their independence of action.
(2) Opposition to military alliance ---- Establishment of military alliance wad an
important feature of cold war era but the non aligned felt that these alliance were
harmful for world peace as well as keep out of the alliance. Hence they decided to
remain out of alliance and power politics of the super powers. This aspect, combined
with opposition to cold war provided a formidable basis for the origin of non alignment.
(3) Opposition to Imperialism, Colonialism and Neo-colonialism--- In contemporary
times the need to meet and overcome the threat posed by neo colonialism to the

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 independence, stability and security of the new states, further upholds the case for
adoption of non-alignment, which alone can provide a chance for a united cooperation
and struggle against forces of neo colonism5.
(4) Desire of independent foreign policy: Non alignment was adopted because it helped
the new states to preserve their individuality. While justifying non aligned movement,
Nehru again declared, policy itself can only be a policy of acting according to our best
judgement. We must be free to judge issues on their merits. Alignment means only one
thing- to relinquish the right to free judgement and action. New states were not prepared
to accept such a position and hence they adopted Non- alignment.
(5) Love for peace and peaceful means: Another positive reason which lead to the
adoption of Non alignment was the acceptance of peace and peaceful means as the
fundamental values. The struggle for independence that took place in most of the states
was governed by the values of peace and prosperity. The newly emerged independent
nations, like India felt greatly concerned and wanted to help the preservation of world
peace, with which was linked their own peace and chance of development. Non
alignment was regarded as the best principle designed to prevent the spread of cold war
and alliance as well as the tensions that these two generated. It was adopted by them
with a view to strengthen the chances of peace against war.

INDIA AND NON ALIGNMENT

The movement had its origins in the 1947 Asian Relations Meeting in New Delhi and the
1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia. India also participated in the 1961
Belgrade Conference that officially established the Nonaligned Movement, but Jawaharlal
Nehru's declining prestige limited his influence. In the 1960s and 1970s, New Delhi
concentrated on internal problems and bilateral relations, yet retained membership in an
increasingly factionalized and radicalized movement. During the contentious 1979 Havana
summit, India worked with moderate nations to reject Cuban president Fidel Castro's
proposition that "socialism" (that is, the Soviet Union) was the "natural ally" of nonalignment.

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IN 1980

Under Indira Gandhi in the early 1980s, India attempted to reassert its prominent role in the
Nonaligned Movement by focusing on the relationship between disarmament and economic
development. By appealing to the economic grievances of developing countries, Indira Gandhi
and her successors exercised a moderating influence on the Nonaligned Movement, diverting
it from some of the War issues that marred the controversial 1979 Havana meeting. Although
hosting the 1983 summit boosted Indian prestige within the movement, its close relations with
the Soviet Union and its pro-Soviet positions on Afghanistan and Cambodia limited its
influence.6

The end of the Cold War left the Nonaligned Movement without its original raison d'être, and
its membership became deeply divided over international disputes, strategy, and organization.
During the 1992 Jakarta summit, India took a middle position between countries favoring
confrontation with developed nations on international economic issues, such as Malaysia, and
those that favoured a more cooperative approach, such as Indonesia. Although New Delhi
played a minor role compared with Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta on most issues facing the
summit, India formulated the Nonaligned Movement position opposing developed countries'
linkage of foreign aid to human rights criteria. The early 1990s demise of the bipolar world
system, which had existed since the end of World War II, shook the underpinnings of India's
foreign policy. The Cold War system of alliances had been rendered meaningless by the
collapse of the East European communist states, the dissolution of the Warsaw Treaty
Organization (Warsaw Pact), and the demise of the Soviet Union. In the early 1990s, most
colonies had become independent, and apartheid in South Africa was being dismantled,
diminishing the value of ant colonialism and making it impossible for antiracism to serve as a
rallying point for international political action (India and South Africa restored full diplomatic
relations in 1993 after a thirty nine year lapse). The Panchsheel (Panch Shila), peaceful
resolution of international disputes, and international cooperation to spur economic
development which was being enhanced by domestic economic reforms were broad objectives

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in a changing world. Thus, the 1990s saw India redefining nonalignment and the view of India's
place in the world.7

India also is a founding member of the Group of fifteen, a group of developing nations
established at the ninth Nonaligned Movement summit in Belgrade in 1989 to facilitate
dialogue with the industrialized countries. India played host to the fourth Group of Fifteen
summit in March 1994. At the summit, Prime Minister Narsimha Rao and other leaders
expressed concern over new trade barriers being raised by the industrialized countries despite
the conclusion of a new world trade agreement.

CONCLUSION

There were three basic elements that influenced the approaches of the Movement to
international issues the right of independent judgment, the struggle against imperialism and
neo-colonialism, and the use of moderation in relations with all big powers. The Movement
also worked towards the restructuring of the international economic order.

Non-Alignment has made self-determination and equality of all peoples, the free development
of the individual, the economic and social progress of society and of nations its central
preoccupations. By combining the question of peace and development with the emancipation
of peoples from all forms of subordination and exploitation, Non- Alignment has become one
of the principal promoters of a positive development of international relations on a global scale
and a movement whose political stance, concepts and strategy are of worldwide relevance.

The Non-Aligned Movement can also be seen in terms of the Movement of the newly-
independent countries from the 1940s to 1960s. They strived for Non-Alignment to make their
voice heard on the international stage. The Cold War, the imminent danger of confrontation,
the necessity to defeat colonialism in its orthodox or new form, the necessity to erase the global
causes of anomaly for even distribution of wealth and technology, but mainly the necessity of
consolidating independence for the newly independent countries and of creating a new code of
interstate relations strengthened the Non-Aligned Movement.

The Movement in a real sense represents the poor of the world. Over eighty per cent of those
countries classified as being the world’s least developed belong to the Non-Aligned Movement.

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Most of the countries which are seriously affected by the balance of payment deficits, food
scarcity and inflation are members of the Movement. Whether one looks at life in terms of the
Gross National Product, terms of trade, industrial stagnation, caloric intake, health and service
delivery, adult literacy, population growth or life expectancy at birth, the non-aligned countries
are among the world's disadvantaged.

The Jakarta Summit in 1992 was a turning point in Non-Aligned history since it was the first
Summit after the end of the Cold War. It allowed the Movement to shift its focus from the
rhetoric of the past to concrete work. The emphasis has shifted from the demands from the
developed countries to cooperation with the developed countries.

The Non-Aligned Movement does not have a formal constitution or a permanent secretariat. It
has a practice of a rotating Chair, under which its Chair is formally rotated to the Head of State
or Government of the host country of the Summit. The Foreign Ministry and Permanent
Mission in New York of the Chair at the same time assume the responsibility of the
administrative management of the Movement. The Co-coordinating Bureau (CoB) at the
United Nations in New York forms the focal point for coordination among the NAM Members.

Since the Non-Aligned countries meet regularly at the UN and conduct much of their work
there, the Chairs' Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York functions as
the Chair of the CoB. The Bureau reviews and facilitates the harmonization of the work of the
NAM Working Groups, Contact Groups, Task Forces and Committees.

Some of the Working Groups, Task Forces and Committees formed by NAM are: High-Level
Working Group for the Restructuring of the United Nations, Working Group on Human Rights,
Working Group on Peace-Keeping Operations, Working Group on Disarmament, Committee
on Palestine, Task Force on Somalia, Non-Aligned Security Caucus, Standing Ministerial
Committee for Economic Cooperation, and Joint Coordinating Committee (chaired by
Chairman of G-77 and Chairman of NAM).

An important mechanism of NAM is the Troika of past, serving and future Chairs. This concept
is operationalized at the discretion of the incumbent Chair and can act as a clearinghouse for
solutions of problems and issues confronting developing countries on which the Movement
must take a position.

The fifteenth Summit of the Non-Aligned Heads of State or Government took place at Sharm
El-Sheikh in Egypt in 2009 and the next Summit is scheduled to be held in Tehran in 2012.
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Apart from Belgrade, where the first and the ninth Summits were held, Summits have been
held at Cairo, Lusaka, Algiers, Colombo, Havana, New Delhi, Harare, Jakarta, Cartagena de
India's, Durban and Kuala Lumpur.

The Non-Aligned Movement has been quite outspoken in its criticism of current UN structures
and power dynamics, mostly in how the organisation has been utilized by powerful states in
ways that violate the principles of NAM. It has made a number of recommendations aimed at
improving the transparency and democracy of UN decision-making. NAM considers the UN
Security Council to be the most distorted and undemocratic of all UN Organs.

Hence, it demands for reshaping and restructuring of the Security Council. NAM accepts the
universality of human rights and social justice, but fiercely resists cultural homogenization. In
line with its views on sovereignty, the organisation appeals for the protection of cultural
diversity, and the tolerance of the religious, socio- cultural, and historical particularities that
define human rights in a specific region.

Lately, NAM has collaborated with other organizations of the developing world, primarily the
Group of 77, forming a number of joint committees and releasing statements and documents
representing the shared interests of both groups. This dialogue and cooperation can be taken as
an effort to increase the global awareness about the organisation and bolster its political clout.

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