Question

"Where freedom is menaced or justice is threatened, or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral, our policy is not neutralist but one of active endeavor to preserve and if possible, establish peace on firm foundations",

When and where Nehru declared this?

• A. American Congress in 1949
• B. SAARC summit in 1964
• C. African Union in 1956
• D. European Union in 1955

Answer 1

The correct option is A American Congress in 1949

The Non-Aligned Movement owes a lot to the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. In fact, India was the first country to initiate the policy of non-alignment, under the leadership of Nehru. Nehru had declared in the American Congress in 1949,"Where freedom is menaced or justice is threatened, or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral, our policy is not neutralist but one of active endeavour to preserve and if possible, establish peace on firm foundations".