Editing Jawaharlal Nehru (section)

==== Non-aligned movement ====
[[File:Jawaharlal Nehru’s tour of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1961 (01).jpg|thumb|alt= See caption |Nehru with [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] and [[Josip Broz Tito]] in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1961]]
On the international scene, Nehru was an opponent of military action and military alliances. He was a strong supporter of the United Nations, except when it tried to resolve the Kashmir question. He pioneered the policy of non-alignment and co-founded the [[Non-Aligned Movement]] of nations professing neutrality between the rival blocs of nations led by the US and the USSR.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jawaharlal-nehru-the-architect-of-indias-foreign-policy/articleshow/58767014.cms|title=Non-Aligned Movement: Jawaharlal Nehru – The architect of India's foreign policy|date=20 May 2017|first=Affanul|last=Haque|website=The Times of India|access-date=7 January 2022|archive-date=6 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006223403/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/jawaharlal-nehru-the-architect-of-indias-foreign-policy/articleshow/58767014.cms|url-status=live}}</ref> The term "non-alignment" was coined earlier by [[V. K. Krishna Menon]] at the United Nations in 1953 and 1954.<ref>{{cite book | last=Ali | first=H.M.W. | title=India and the Non-aligned Movement | publisher=Adam Pub. | year=2004 | isbn=978-81-7435-367-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VezCRvqKq7MC&pg=PA7 | page=7}}</ref> India recognised the People's Republic of China soon after its founding (while most of the Western bloc continued relations with [[Taiwan]]). Nehru argued for its inclusion in the United Nations and refused to brand the Chinese as the aggressors in the west's conflict with Korea.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Robert Sherrod |author-link=Robert Sherrod|date=19 January 1963 |title=Nehru:The Great Awakening |journal=[[The Saturday Evening Post]] |volume=236 |issue=2 |pages=60–67}}</ref> He sought to establish warm and friendly relations with China in 1950 and hoped to act as an intermediary to bridge the gulf and tensions between the communist states and the Western bloc.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bf8vAQAAIAAJ|title = Encyclopaedia Indica: Great political personalities of Post Colonial Era-I|date = 1996|pages=81|first= Shyam Singh|last=Shashi|publisher = Anmol Publications|isbn = 9788170418597}}</ref>

Nehru was a key organiser of the [[Bandung Conference]] of April 1955, which brought 29 newly independent nations together from Asia and Africa, and was designed to galvanise the nonalignment movement under Nehru's leadership. He envisioned it as his key leadership opportunity on the world stage, where he would bring together emerging nations.<ref>[[Sarvepalli Gopal]],''"Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography" Vol.2'', 2:232–235.</ref> He was one of the key participants of the [[1st Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement]] in 1961 in [[Belgrade]], [[FPR Yugoslavia]].