On September 1, Agha Shahi, Advisor to the President of Pakistan on Foreign Affairs, held a meeting in Havana with the Indian Foreign Minister, Shyam Nandan Mishra. Ziaul Haq arrived there to attend the Sixth Non-Aligned Summit conference. Yugoslavia, along with Egypt and India, was the founder of the non-aligned movement in 1961.
Pakistan formally joined the group of nearly 100 nations at the 6th summit in Havana, Cuba, in 1979.
It was reported that during a meeting of the Political Committee of the Non-Aligned Nations Summit Conference, Pakistan had proposed that the summit issue a strong call for the transfer of nuclear technology from the developed to the developing world. Zia ul Haq was reported to have told the Yugoslav President Marshal Tito in Havana that Pakistan would be true to the basic principles of non-alignment enunciated at the Belgrade conference in 1961.