The eleventh conference of heads of state and government of the Nonaligned Countries, which took place in Columbia in October 1995, became a historic landmark for the Nonaligned Movement (NAM) – the largest and most authoritative interstate association of the developing world. Born in the era of confrontation between the two socio-economic systems, the movement had to challenge the existing division of the world corresponding to the lofty ideals of the struggle for national liberation and social advancement, and at the same time help to avoid the negative consequences of the “socialist option.” The author explains that the aspiraton by the Nonaligned Countries to be “equi-distanced” in the context of the Cold War imposed a dual imprint on the evolution and development of the movement itself.
