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]
- ^ "Non-alignment and SL's foreign policy". Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sri Lanka). 10 January 2012.
- ^ Tvrtko Jakovina (2011). Treća strana Hladnog rata [The Third Side of the Cold War] (in Croatian). Fraktura. ISBN 978-953-266-203-0.
- ^ Karunadasa, W. M. (1993). "A re-appraisal of Sri Lanka's Non-Alignment : 1948 - 1960". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka. 37: 69–81.
- ^ "Non Alignment: Will Lanka abandon principles". The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka).
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