Kampala
In a warm gesture, India has gifted 10 executive buses, 5 ambulances, 10 tractors and 2664 flags/flag poles to Uganda ahead of the NAM (Non-aligned Movement) contact group summit, which will take place in Kampala this month.
It will be the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which will be held this month. Uganda was endorsed to chair the Non-Aligned Movement on behalf of Africa for the period from 2022 to 2025.
Notably, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar visited Uganda in April last year and discussed cooperation in trade and investment, infrastructure, energy, defence, health, digital and agricultural domains.
The NAM chair position rotates every three years during summit conferences. The chair of the movement is assisted by both the former and incoming chairs. According to the movement, this structure represents its past, present and future. Azerbaijan chaired the NAM for the period between 2019 to 2022 having taken over from Venezuela. The Non-Aligned Movement was formed in 1961 during the end of the colonial system and the independence struggles globally and at the height of the Cold War.
The NAM is composed of 120 member states from the developing world and is the largest forum for political coordination and consultation after and within the United Nations. It is a forum not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
