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Vice-President to
leave for Venezuela to participate in 17th NAM Summit
Vice-President Mohammad Hamid Ansari will leave for Venezuela this
afternoon to participate in the 17th Summit of the Non Aligned Movement or NAM.
The Summit is being held at
Margarita Island in Venezuela on 17th and 18th of this month. The summit will
be preceded by deliberations at the Ministerial and Senior Official levels.
17th NAM Summit is expected to bring together leaders from the 120
developing countries that are members of this Movement.
The NAM Summits are among the
largest gathering of countries, after the United Nations.
India is one of the founding
members of the Non Aligned Movement which came into being 55 years ago when
leaders of 25 developing countries, including the then Prime Minister Jawahar
Lal Nehru met at the 1961 Belgrade Conference.
The last NAM Summit was hosted by Iran in 2012.
