Nehru and Tito shared a close friendship and this extended to Indira Gandhi and Tito later. Tito was the first European leader to visit after India’s Independence and Nehru reciprocated the visit in 1955 following his tour of the Soviet Union, Central Asian countries, Egypt, UK and Europe. It was during this tour that Nehru stressed India’s position as an independent country that was not aligned with either side of the Cold War. Marshall Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Gamel Abdel Nasser of Egypt expressed similar opposition to military pacts and the dominant blocs of the East and West. A key result of this visit was the Nehru–Tito Declaration which emphasized peaceful coexistence and non-alignment, a position India still holds today. The following year, Nehru, Tito and Nasser met on the Brioni Islands agreeing to garner support for their positions of non-alignment leading to the launching of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the Belgrade Conference in 1961.