Who were the three eminent statesmen who started the Non-aligned Movement?

(A) Jawaharlal Nehru, Anwar Sadat, Soekamo
(B) Jawaharlal Nehru, Chou Enlai, Kwame Nkrumah
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru, Fidel Castro, Marshal Tito
(D) Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito

Correct Answer : Jawaharlal Nehru, Gamal Abdul Nasser, Marshal Tito
Question Asked : SSC Combined Graduate Level Prelim Exam 2004
Explanation : The organization was founded in Belgrade in 1961, and was largely the brainchild of Yugoslavia’s president, Josip Broz Tito; Indonesia’s first president, Sukarno; Egypt’s second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser; Ghana’s first president Kwame Nkrumah; and India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. All five leaders were prominent advocates of a middle course for states in the Developing World between the Western and Eastern blocs in the Cold War. The phrase itself was first used to represent the doctrine by Indian diplomat and statesman V.K. Krishna Menon in 1953, at the United Nations.
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