Algeria Burma Cambodia Ceylon Congo-Léopoldville Cuba Cyprus Ethiopia Ghana Guinea India Indonesia Iraq Lebanon Mali Morocco Nepal Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Tunisia United Arab Republic Yemen Summit Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (Serbo-Croatian: Конференција шефова држава или влада несврстаних земаља / Konferencija šefova država ili vlada nesvrstanih zemalja, Macedonian: Конференција на шефови на држави или влади на неврзани земји, Slovene: Konferenca voditeljev držav ali vlad neuvrščenih držav) on 1–6 September 1961 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia was the first conference of the Non-Aligned Movement.

[1] A major contributing factor to the organization of the conference was the process of decolonization of a number of African countries in the 1960s.

[4] Brijuni Islands, an archipelago in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, were initially considered to host the summit after they hosted the Brioni Meeting of 1956, yet the City of Belgrade was ultimately selected due to Brijuni's insufficient venues and concentration of the international communication and media facilities in the capital city of Yugoslavia.

In addition to them, there were three states that had observer status, eleven socialist parties, trade unions from Japan and four other organizations.

The conference was followed by 1,016 journalists of which 690 were from abroad from 53 countries and with the New York Times' Paul Hofmann describing the event as a "paradise for cameramen".