The Belgrade summit will be held on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of this movement. The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia's President, Josip Broz Tito, India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's first president Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesia's first President, Sukarno.
The Serbian Beta news agency reported that the event will draw delegations of 105 countries and of the United Nations, the African Union, the Arab League and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
Croatia will be represented by Foreign Ministry State Secretary Mario Nabilo. A special guest at the meeting will be Budimir Loncar, the last foreign minister of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and currently the chair of the foreign affairs council of advisers of the the Croatian president.
Croatia is an observer to the NAM which currently consists of 118 member-countries.