Cairo Conference of Nonaligned Nations

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The second Conference of Nonaligned Nations, following the Belgrade Conference of September 1961, took place in Cairo on October 5–10, 1964. During the preparatory meeting held in Colombo, Ceylon, on March 23, 1964, the participants agreed that the Conference should be convened in Cairo in the first week of October and that the countries to be invited should be: 1) the 25 which had taken part in the Belgrade Conference; 2) all those which subscribed to the Charter of the Organization of African Unity (OAU); 3) all Arab countries which had taken part in the January 1964 meeting of the Arab League in Cairo; 4) Malawi, Laos, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Austria, Finland, and Sweden; 5) Zambia and British Guiana if their independence was proclaimed before October 1964; and 6) Holden Roberto's provisional government of Angola and any other provisional government formed in Africa between March and October 1964 and recognized by the OAU. It was also decided that the Cairo Conference should be preceded by a foreign ministers' meeting in Cairo. The preparatory meeting recommended that the following items be included in the Conference's agenda: 1) general discussion of the international situation; 2) the safeguarding and strengthening of world peace and security and the promotion of positive trends and new emerging nationalist forces in international affairs; 3) peaceful coexistence and the codification of its principles by the United Nations; 4) respect for the sovereignty of states and their territorial integrity; 5) problems of divided nations; 6) colonialism, neocolonialism, and imperialism; 7) racial discrimination and the policy of apartheid; 8) settlement of disputes without the threat or use of force in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter and the right of self-determination; 9) general and complete disarmament, prohibition of all nuclear weapons tests, establishment of nuclear-free zones, prevention of the dissemination ol: nuclear weapons, and the abolition of all nuclear weapons; 10) the United Nations, its role in international affairs, the implementation of its resolutions, and approval of proposed amendments to the Charter; and n) economic development and cooperation, the effects of disarmament on world economic development, and the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).