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India's NAM 2.0: Why West's response to Modi's non-alignment is restrained

Back in 1961, at the Belgrade Conference, three leaders India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru along with Gamal Abdel Nazeer, the Egyptian President and Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia laid the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement. REASON’S FOR MODI’S NON-ALIGNED POLICY India, till date, has abstained from every resolution on the ongoing conflict which was moved by either the West or Russia. Secondly, even as India is trying to diversify its arms trade, Russia still dominates the field as the exporter amounting of 49.4 per cent of all arm imports to India between 2016 and 2020. For over a month now, editorials in top US media outlets like the Washington Post and New York Times have been critical about India’s neutral stance, which they say is leaning towards Russia.

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