2nd Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement

Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement
Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement
Host country	United Arab Republic
Date	5–10 October 1964
Cities	Cairo
Participants	Afghanistan; Algeria; Angola; Burma; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Ceylon; Chad; PR Congo; Cuba; Cyprus; Dahomey; Ethiopia; Ghana; Guinea; India; Indonesia; Iraq; Jordan; Kenya; Kuwait; Laos; Lebanon; Liberia; Libya; Mali; Malawi; Mauritania; Morocco; Nepal; Nigeria; Rwanda; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Somalia; Sudan; Syria; Tanzania; Togo; Tunisia; Uganda; UAR; North Yemen; Yugoslavia; Zambia
Chair	Gamal Abdel Nasser; (President of Egypt)
Follows	1st Summit (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Precedes	3rd Summit (Lusaka, Zambia)

Second Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement on 5–10 October 1964 in

Ceylon, on March 23, 1964.^[1] At the beginning of the conference the chairmanship of the Movement was transferred from the President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito to the President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser.^[2]

Issues discussed

Universalist and Regionalist approach to membership

One of the prominent issues resolved at the Cairo conference was the disagreement on membership in the movement where Yugoslavia advocated for universalist approach (in which movement would be open to all the non-aligned countries regardless of geography, notably in

Organization of African Unity yet it never took place due to Sino-Soviet split and 1965 Algerian coup d'état.^[4]^[3]