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Article: Helping found Non-Aligned Movement among Sihanouk's top achievements
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- February 21, 2003
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Dateline: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia
In his heyday, King Norodom Sihanouk would cajole, irritate and even
sing to the world's leaders to keep his small country free and out
of the conflicts and revolutions which engulfed the Cold War world.
He also proved a great survivor, and now the ailing, 80-year-old monarch
remains the lone living founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement,
a haven for countries like Cambodia which chose not to side with
either the United States or the Soviet Union.
Sihanouk was present in Bandung, Indonesia, in 1955, along with Gamal
Abdel Nasser of Egypt, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Sukarno of Indonesia,
when the formation of the movement was ...