Naidu invokes Nehru while talking of NAM in Serbia

NEW DELHI: Vice President Venkaiah Naidu invoked India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru as as he addressed the Serbian Parliament on the International Day of Democracy on Saturday. He said that relations between India and Serbia are deeply rooted in history.

During the visit, the two sides signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of plant health and plant quarantine and a revised Air Services Agreement.

Naidu also addressed a special session of the National Assembly of Serbia, where the first Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit took place in 1961. He said that India and Serbia share a common perspective on many issues and have a deeper affinity that brings the two countries closer.


He said it would be good to recall Nehru’s words at the conference of NAM nations in Belgrade on September 2, 1961. “It was here that the first NAM Summit took place in 1961. Prime Minister of India Pandit Nehru and other world leaders of Non-Aligned Movement addressed the NAM Summit in this hallowed hall,” Naidu said.