PM Modi to participate in NAM Summit through Video Conferencing today

Prime
Minister Narendra Modi will participate in the Virtual Non-Aligned Movement
(NAM) Summit through Video Conferencing today. The summit will discuss and
decide on the enhanced coordination of the member states in their fight against
the coronavirus pandemic.

The special
online summit of the heads of state and government of the NAM member states has
been convened at the initiative of President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, in his
capacity as current chair of the Movement.

The summit
will conclude with a political declaration of the Movement as Uniting Against
COVID-19. NAM represents the biggest grouping of countries outside the United
Nations comprising 120 developing countries from Asia, Africa and Latin
America.