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Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito was its first secretary-general, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser its second. Egypt's Mohamed Morsi serves as current secretary-general.
Earlier ones included Fidel and Raul Castro, Nelson Mandela, Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, and South Africa's Thabo Mbeki.
Havana hosted the 1979 summit. Fidel Castro enunciated the Havana Declaration of 1979, saying:
It's purpose is to ensure "the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of non-aligned countries (in their) struggle against imperialism, colonialism, neocolonialism, racism, and all forms of foreign aggression, occupation, domination, interference or hegemony as well as as against great power and bloc politic."
Membership criteria were adopted. They included:
(1) Independent policies based on "the coexistence of States with different political and social systems" and non-alignment.
(2) Support for "Movements for National Independence."
(3) Countries belonging to "multilateral military alliance(s)" are excluded.
(4) Countries accepted for membership with them "should not be one(s) deliberately concluded in the context of Great Power conflicts."
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