10th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement

10th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement
Host country	Indonesia
Date	1–6 September 1992
Cities	Jakarta
Chair	Suharto (President of Indonesia)
Follows	9th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Belgrade,  Yugoslavia)
Precedes	11th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (Cartagena  Colombia)

10th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on 1–6 September 1992 in Jakarta, Indonesia was the conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement.^[1] Around 100 delegations, including some 60 heads of State or government, participated in the Summit in Jakarta.^[2]

The end of the Cold War and the subsequent violent breakup of Yugoslavia, one of the founding and core members, seemed to bring into question the very existence of the Movement, yet it was preserved during the times of crisis by the politically pragmatic chairmanship of Indonesia.^[3] The Summit concluded that the NAM would create a special panel of economists and experts to investigate appropriate options for debt relief needed by many member needed by many member states.^[4]

Issues on Agenda

Yugoslav Crisis

At the time of the Breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was at the end of its 1989–1992 chairmanship of the movement and was about to transfer its chairmanship to Indonesia. The Yugoslav crisis created logistical and legal issues in the smooth transfer to Indonesian chairmanship. At the time of the September 1–6, 1992 conference in Jakarta, the

The Yugoslav Crisis created an unprecedented situation in which the chairperson of the movement (Dobrica Ćosić who was in London at the time) was absent from the conference to transfer the chairmanship to Indonesia.^[6] The Yugoslav delegation, without any clear instructions from Belgrade, was led by Montenegrin diplomat Branko Lukovac.^[6] The delegation agreed that the new post-Yugoslav states could participate in the meeting with the status of observers despite the fact that Belgrade did not recognize them at the time.^[6] In the partially chaotic circumstances, the Yugoslav delegation (de facto Serbian and Montenegrin delegation) managed to achieve results which the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Amr Moussa, described as good for Yugoslavia and better than what should be expected from the United Nations.^[6] The movement decided not to expel Yugoslavia from the movement. Instead, to leave the Yugoslav nametag and the empty chair, which was kept until the beginning of the XXI century when, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia dropped its claim on sole succession of the Socialist Yugoslavia.^[6] The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was not to be invited to conferences except if Yugoslav issues were discussed.^[6]

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