Non-Aligned Movement Collection from Belgrade Listed in UNESCO Register

The document collection “The First Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade”, whose nomination was carried by Indonesia as the nominator and Serbia as a co-nominator, with the support of India, Egypt and Algeria, has been listed in the UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register, as confirmed for the Politika daily by Milan Terzic, a historian and the director of the Archives of Yugoslavia.

The collection consists of scanned copies of 76 text archives, 242 photographs, one audio-archive and 15 films. Among the documents are the Statement About the Threat of War and the Appeal to Preserve World Peace, two letters similar in content sent to the then president of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev, and the then president of the USA, John F. Kennedy, a message of Josip Broz Tito to the secretary-general of the United Nations Security Council, U Thant, as well as notes taken during Tito’s meetings and talks with the participants of the Belgrade Conference.

The Memory of the World program was launched by the UNESCO in 1997 in order to preserve and promote world cultural documentation heritage of universal value. This register is a counterpart to the Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Along with the collection “The First Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Belgrade”, 63 document collections are listed in the Memory of the World Register, and now the total number of the collections in the register is 494.

Arhiv Jugoslavije

Republička ustanova Filmske novosti

Archives of Yugoslavia

Milan Terzic

The First Summit of the Non Aligned Movement in Belgrade

Non Aligned Movement

UNESCO

Memory of the World Register