YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian will pay a visit to Tehran from Thursday to Friday.  

In the Iranian capital city, Nalbandian will attend the Foreign Ministers’ Council and Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, Armenian MFA informs.  

To note, the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is a group of states considering themselves not aligned formally with or against any major power bloc. As of 2012, the movement has 120 members and 17 observer countries.

The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of former Yugoslavia’s president, Josip Broz Tito; India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah; and Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno.

All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War.

The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.

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