Brioni Meeting

Not to be confused with Brioni Agreement.

Brioni Meeting
Three leaders arriving at Brijuni.
Host country Yugoslavia
Date1956
CitiesBrijuni Islands ( PR Croatia)
Participants★ Gamal Abdel Nasser
(President of Egypt)
★ Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister of India)
★ Josip Broz Tito
(President of Yugoslavia)
Memorial stone plaque dedicated to Brijuni Declaration in the Brijuni Museums, Brijuni Islands.

The Brioni Meeting (Serbo-Croatian: Brionski sastanak) between President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser, Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru and their host President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito took place on the Brijuni Islands, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia on 19 July 1956.[1] The conference was one of the major initiatives among countries unaffiliated to neither Eastern or Western Bloc on their road to the establishment of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 1961 Belgrade Summit.[2][3] 120 Yugoslav and foreign journalists followed the meeting.[4]

The three leaders signed a document known as the Brioni Declaration expressing that: "Peace cannot be achieved via division, but via striving for collective security on the global scale. Achieved by the expansion of the area of freedom, as well as through the ending of domination of one country over another."[1][5] French media criticized Yugoslav hosts for giving prominent role to the issue of liberation struggle in French Algeria yet British analysts noticed Nasser's insistence on the issue, Nehru's moderation efforts and Tito's decision not to meet with representatives of the Algerian delegates during the conference.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Krajcar, Dražem. "Tito, Nehru i Naser na Brijunima dogovorili osnivanje Pokreta nesvrstanih – 1956". Povijest.hr.
  2. ^ Predrag Aleksendrić (19 July 2020). "19. jula 1956. je održan istorijski sastanak na Brionima – Tito, Naser, Nehru" (in Serbian). Na Drugi Pogled. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  3. ^ Jovana Georgievski (1 September 2020). ""Sve je počelo u Beogradu". Šta je danas sa Pokretom nesvrstanih" (in Serbian). BBC. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  4. ^ Radina Vučetić; Pol Bets; Radovan Cukić; Ana Sladojević (2017). Tito u Africi: slike solidarnosti (PDF). Museum of Yugoslavia. ISBN 978-86-84811-45-7.
  5. ^ Milan Pavlović (19 July 2020). "NA DANAŠNJI DAN Prije 64 godine na Brijunima su Tito, Nehru i Naser osnovali pokret nesvrstanih" (in Croatian). Glas Istre. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
  6. ^ "British Documents on Brioni Meeting" (PDF). Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Retrieved 18 May 2023.

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