EAM Jaishankar meets Kenyan Deputy Foreign Minister at 18th NAM Summit

Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met Kenyan Deputy Foreign Minister, Ababu Namwamba, on October 24. meeting led to discussion on India's development cooperation with Nairobi in backdrop of 18th session of NAM (n-Aligned Movement).

External Affairs Minister's meeting with foreign dignitaries

Jaishankar posted a tweet that mentioned his meeting with Kenyan Deputy Foreign Minister.

Indian External Affairs minister also posted a tweet with Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Tilak Marapana, that confirmed a brief discussion between both dignitaries.

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Jaishankar h also met Malaysian External Affairs Minister, Saifuddin Abdullah, on October 23 during NAM Ministerial meeting that was held in Baku.

18th NAM summit

18th summit of NAM (n-Aligned Movement) kicked off in Baku, Azerbaijan on October 25, bringing toger hes of different countries. summit was inaugurated by Azerbaijan's President, Ilham Aliyev, who called for strengning cooperation among 120 member nations.

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18th session of NAM summit was attended by world leers such as Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, Chairman of Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Bakir Izetbegovic, Nepalese Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Pakistani President Arif Alvi, Indian Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj, Venezuelan President Nicolas Muro, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, Djibouti President Ismail Omar, Ghanaian President Nana Akufo- do alongside Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammed.

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Venezuela's President me opening statements at inaugural session as current chairperson before handing over reins to Azerbaijan's president, Ilham Aliyev. Aliyev promised to build NAM on base of Bandung principles. principles of NAM were formulated in Bandung in 1955 but forum became formal in year 1961 in Belgre with initiatives of Jawaharlal Nehru and Josip Broz Tito.

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(With inputs from ncies)