India’s views on many global issues such as:

♤ India’s deep dissatisfaction with the international order characterised as it was by economic, political, and nuclear hierarchies.

♤ It was through NAM that India articulated the call for a new international economic order

that would cater for the special needs of the developing countries.

♤ Similarly, it was through NAM that India articulated the call for a new world information and communication order to provide a greater voice for developing countries in global communications.

♤ NAM also served as a forum for India to articulate its views on global nuclear disarmament and the discriminatory nature of the global nuclear order at the centre of which stood the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).