President Mahama Arrives in Belgrade for NAM Summit
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President Mahama Arrives in Belgrade for 65th Non-Aligned Movement Summit
President John Dramani Mahama has touched down in Belgrade for a summit that carries real historical weight for Ghana. He’s there to mark the 65th anniversary of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) a movement Ghana helped found back in 1961.
Mahama’s presence at this summit isn’t just diplomatic protocol. Ghana was one of the founding members of NAM, and that legacy runs deep. The country’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, was among the key architects behind the movement, working alongside figures like Yugoslavia’s President Josip Broz Tito, India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and Indonesia’s President Sukarno.
Their goal at the time was ambitious: carve out an independent diplomatic path for developing nations during the Cold War, so they wouldn’t have to pick a side between the Western capitalist bloc and the Soviet socialist bloc.
This year’s gathering runs under the theme “The Legacy of Non-Alignment: Lessons for Today’s World.” The idea is to revisit NAM’s founding principles sovereign equality among nations, respect for territorial integrity, non-interference in internal affairs, and stronger economic cooperation among developing countries and consider how relevant they remain in today’s world.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is hosting the summit, and it’s drawing high-level participation from more than 30 countries spanning Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
What started as a Cold War-era alliance has since grown into something much bigger. With 120 member states today, the Non-Aligned Movement is the largest international grouping outside the United Nations itself a testament to how much staying power the original vision has had, decades after it was first conceived.
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