The Foreign Ministers of the Non Aligned Movement held their first meeting in Georgetown, Guyana in August 1972. This was an important for Sri Lanka as Mrs Bandaranaike had proposed the holding of the next Summit in Colombo, with Algeria also asking for the Summit to be convened in Algiers. It was at the Georgetown Meeting that a final decision was taken to have the 1973 Summit in Algiers and the 1976 Summit in Colombo.