Not dead yet
A ghostly relic marks its birth in a vanished country
WHEN an ageing rock star goes on tour decades after his final hit, people remark cruelly that they thought he died some time ago. The same fate has befallen the Non-Aligned Movement, a 120-member outfit that this week celebrated its 50th anniversary in its birthplace, Belgrade. The city was then the capital of Yugoslavia, a country that epitomised the group's uneasy balance between East and West in the cold war. It is now the capital of Serbia, a country that has not joined the body.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Not dead yet”
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