60th Anniversary Additional Commemorative Non-Aligned Meeting

The event took place at the Belgrade Fair with attendees including President of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, Abd al-Hakim (son of Gamal Abdel Nasser), and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov as an observer. Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres stressed that the event is taking place in the context of exceptional global challenges. Cyprus, one of the founding members and one of three former European members, was notably absent, with Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cyprus refusing to comment on Radio Free Europe and with media implying it was the result of Cyprus's poor relations with the co-host country of Azerbaijan. Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu was invited as a special guest. Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkır was previously president of the Seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikola Selaković described the event as the largest diplomatic gathering in Europe taking place during the COVID pandemic. Delegates Members • ; Aymen Benabderrahmane • ; Tete António • ; Jeyhun Bayramov • ; AK Abdul Momen • ; Alpha Barry • ; Nana Akufo-Addo • ; Joseph Hamilton • ; Meenakshi Lekhi • ; Fuad Hussein • ; Abdallah Bou Habib • ; Narayan Khadka • ; Denis Moncada Colindres • ; Riyad al-Maliki • ; Mark Brantley • ; Mariam al-Mahdi Observers • ; Milorad Dodik • ; Zdenko Lucić • ; Sergey Lavrov • ; Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu ==Events and initiatives==

The city of Belgrade extended the opening hours of various services (restricted due to pandemic) to welcome numerous foreign guests. The President of the Seventy-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly hosted the Meeting of Women Heads of Delegations and Ministers of Foreign Affairs at the UN House in Belgrade. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia Retno Marsudi highlighted Indonesia's nomination of the Archive of the First NAM Conference to the Memory of the World program of UNESCO. Saint Kitts and Nevis and Burkina Faso established formal diplomatic relations and a visa waiver agreement at the meeting. During a meeting with Riyad al-Maliki, President of Serbia Vučić reiterated that his country would not move its embassy to Jerusalem, as it had planned in the 2020 Washington Agreement. ==Criticism==

University of Graz professor Florian Bieber criticized the event, describing it as '[u]nified by nothing, containing a lot of autocrats and serving the [Aleksandar Vučić] policy agenda'. The President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani said Belgrade was using the movement to distort perceptions about Kosovo and called Serbia a colonizer country. The head of the Serbian Government's Office for Kosovo Petar Petković countered, stating '[Osmani] is losing support internationally'. ==References==