UN General Assembly
1980

63. The nonaligned movement was conceived and has been developed at Belgrade, Cairo, Lusaka, Algiers and Colombo as a movement that embodies great and lofty ideals. Nonalignment Us for peaceful coexistence, the realization of justice a peace, intensification of cooperation among peoples, an end to interference in the affairs of States and respect for human rights. In essence, the movement was designed to protect nations against recourse to force and the evils of polarization. It is on this premise that we cannot tolerate the manoeuvres of certain forces from within the movement to transform it into a tool of a certain superpower, thereby defeating the very purpose of its existence.