60th Anniversary Additional Commemorative Non-Aligned Meeting
| 60th Anniversary Additional Commemorative Non-Aligned Meeting Додатни комеморативни сусрет Покрета несврстаних на 60. годишњицу оснивања / Dodatni komemorativni susret Pokreta nesvrstanih na 60. godišnjicu osnivanja (Serbian) | |
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the Belgrade Fair was selected as an adequately large event venue in the Covid pandemic context | |
| Host country | Serbia |
| Date | October 11, 2021 – October 12, 2021 |
| Venue(s) | Belgrade Fair |
| Cities | Belgrade |
| Chair | Aleksandar Vučić and Ilham Aliyev (President of Serbia and President of Azerbaijan) |
60th Anniversary Additional Commemorative Non-Aligned Meeting is the 11–12 October 2021 Non-Aligned Movement commemorative meeting taking place in Belgrade, Serbia. The meeting was organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Serbia, and cohosted with Azerbaijan, in commemoration to the 1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. President Ilham Aliyev made opening speech in a video format. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Serbia Nikola Selaković underlined that his county's strategic and essential goal is membership in the European Union, but that Serbia will not give up on its traditional friends which are not only Russia or China but all member states of the Non-Aligned Movement. While reflecting on historical achievements Indian representative Meenakshi Lekhi invited honest introspection if movement is to keep its relevance and called unnamed member states to avoid insistence on divisive issues and bilateral score-settling which make NAM increasingly ineffective. Participants vocally decried the disparity in vaccine access between developed and developing countries.