Prime Minister Narendra Modi would participate in the virtual summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to be held on Monday to enhance coordination of the member states in their fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
The meeting is being convened at the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, in his capacity as the current chair of the movement. This would be the first time that the Indian Prime Minister would be attending a NAM summit-level meeting after taking office in 2014.
PM Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to give the NAM summit in 2016 a skip. He did not attend the 2019 summit as well.
The online session will conclude with a political declaration of the movement “uniting against Covid-19” as well as identified measures for enhanced coordination among NAM members in their common fight against Covid-19.
Prime Minister Modi will speak of the steps taken by India and the need for the world to come together at this time of crisis.
India, on its part, has been extending assistance to many countries in ways of providing medicines and essential medical supplies to many countries.
The summit-level meeting will also see participation from representatives of international organisations such as United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghevreyesus, Director-General of WHO.
The NAM represents the biggest grouping of countries outside the United Nations, comprising 120 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Pakistan, too, would be participating in the NAM virtual summit. The country will be represented by President Arif Alvi.
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