By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n
Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs has proposed that South Sudan signs up as a member of a Non-Alliance Movement (NAM0-a global body that seeks to maintain neutrality in other nations’ affairs.<\/p>\n
Minister Deng Dau Deng made the proposal after a non-aligned global summit in which leaders from all around the world, including South Sudan, the youngest country, attended.<\/p>\n
None alliance movement is a body consisting of a number of countries from the Middle East. It was established in 1962 and its mandate is to be neutral from intervening in matters which can\u2019t befit their role.<\/p>\n
Government spokesperson, Michael Makuei told journalists on Friday that the Cabinet approved Deng\u2019s proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis proposal report was approved and adopted, and he was directed to move forward with the necessary procedures for the joining of the non-aligned,\u201d he said after the Council of Ministers meeting.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Non-Aligned Movement\u00a0(NAM<\/strong>) is a forum of 120 countries that\u00a0are not formally aligned<\/a>\u00a0with or against any major\u00a0power bloc<\/a>. After the\u00a0United Nations<\/a>, it is the largest grouping of states worldwide.<\/p>\n The movement originated in the aftermath of the\u00a0Korean War<\/a>, as an effort by some countries to counterbalance the rapid bi-polarization<\/a>\u00a0of the world during the\u00a0Cold War<\/a>, whereby two major powers formed blocs and embarked on a policy to pull the rest of the world into their orbits.<\/p>\n The countries of the Non-Aligned Movement represent nearly two-thirds of the United Nations’ members and contain 55% of the world population.<\/p>\n Membership is particularly concentrated in countries considered to be\u00a0developing countries<\/a>, although the Non-Aligned Movement also has a number of\u00a0developed nations<\/a><\/p>\n One of these was the pro-Soviet\u00a0socialist<\/a>\u00a0bloc whose best-known alliance was the\u00a0Warsaw Pact<\/a>, and the other was the pro-American\u00a0capitalist<\/a>\u00a0group of countries, many of which belonged to\u00a0NATO<\/a>.<\/p>\n In 1961, drawing on the principles agreed at the\u00a0Bandung Conference<\/a>\u00a0of 1955, the Non-Aligned Movement was formally established in\u00a0Belgrade<\/a>,\u00a0Yugoslavia<\/a>, through an initiative of Yugoslav President\u00a0Josip Broz Tito<\/a>, Indian Prime Minister\u00a0Jawaharlal Nehru<\/a>, Egyptian President\u00a0Gamal Abdel Nasser<\/a>, Ghanaian President\u00a0Kwame Nkrumah<\/a>, and Indonesian President\u00a0Sukarno<\/a>.<\/p>\n This led to the\u00a0first Conference of Heads of State or Governments of Non-Aligned Countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n The purpose of the organization was summarized by\u00a0Fidel Castro<\/a> in his Havana Declaration of 1979 as to ensure “the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of non-aligned countries.”<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Bida Elly David Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs has proposed that South Sudan signs up as a member of a Non-Alliance Movement (NAM0-a global body that seeks to maintain neutrality in other nations’ affairs. Minister Deng Dau Deng made the proposal after a non-aligned global summit in which leaders[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Humanitarian-Affairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16546,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions\/16546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}