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 two-day conference in Belgrade brought together officials from more than one hundred countries, the United Nations, the African Union, the Arab League and the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.
Croatia was represented by Foreign Ministry State Secretary Mario Nobilo. 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 council of foreign affairs advisers to the Croatian president. Croatia is an observer at the NAM, which currently consists of 118 member-countries.
Also attending were foreign ministers or deputy foreign ministers from other former Yugoslav republics.
Serbian President Boris Tadic is expected to address the event.