Sri Lanka and the Non-Aligned Movement
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Sri Lanka is one of the founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement. Principles of Non-Alignment and participation in movement's activities is of high priority in foreign policy of the country.[1]
Its capital of Colombo hosted the 5th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement on 16–19 August 1976. The country proposed its bid to host the summit at the 1973 Non-Aligned Standing Committee Conference in Kabul.[2] Following the 1976 Summit Sri Lanka held the chairmanship of the movement for three years until 1979.[3] This role represented the pinnacle of Sri Lankan foreign policy in the period of Cold War.[4]