6th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement

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Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement
Host country Cuba
Date3–6 September 1979
CitiesHavana
ChairFidel Castro
(President of Cuba)
Follows5th Summit (Colombo,  Sri Lanka)
Precedes7th Summit (New Delhi,  India)

6th Summit of the

SFR Yugoslavia.[5] While both Cuba and Yugoslavia were at the time nominally socialist states, they took substantially different position in world politics with Cuba perceiving United States and Yugoslavia perceiving Soviet Union as the main threat to its independence.[6]

SFR Yugoslavia, then one of the most active members of the movement, accused Soviet Union and its allies for creation of divisions and efforts to manipulate the movement.

President of Yugoslavia and NAM veteran Josip Broz Tito condemned the Cuban view of "a natural alliance" between the nonaligned movement and the communist bloc underlining that the movement "is not, and cannot be, either a conveyor belt or the reserve of any bloc".[7] The trip to the NAM conference in Havana was the penultimate international trip of the President of Yugoslavia, which contributed to the worsening of his health condition and his death in 1980.[9] At the time, the repudiation of the "natural alliance" led by Yugoslavia was perceived as a success having positive effects on United States–Yugoslavia relations.[10] Cuba at the same time believed that Yugoslavia, as a "relatively small, comparatively developed, white, European and Northern," country did not deserve such a prominent place in the movement, yet the effort to marginalize it at the summit was unsuccessful.[11] President of Tanzania Julius Nyerere responded directly to some of the accusations underlining the original NAM principles and stating that while the movement itself is a progressive movement it is not a grouping only of and for progressive countries.[8] He also refused the idea that the movement can have permanent enemies.[8] President Nyerere strongly rejected requests by some to delete statements by Egyptian delegation.[8] The post-Francoist Spain took part as a guest of the summit for the first time ever.[2]

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