Azerbaijan joined the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) at the organisation's latest meeting, in Indonesia on May 25th-27th. Azerbaijan's accession brings the total number of members to 120. Previously, Azerbaijan had observer status. According to the Azerbaijani authorities, the rationale behind joining the NAM is that it will offer Azerbaijan an alternative forum for representing its views on its long-running dispute with Armenia over Nagorny Karabakh. Azerbaijan's decision to join may also reflect the general decline in its relations with Euro-Atlantic countries. Highlighting this, in April Azerbaijan announced that US-Azerbaijan military exercises supposed to be held in Azerbaijan on May 15th-25th were delayed. No new date has been set for the exercises. The same event was cancelled in 2010, apparently owing to Azerbaijan's anger at US support for the signing of the protocols between Armenia and Turkey (Turkey closed its border with Armenia in support for Azerbaijan's position over Nagorny Karabakh in the early 1990s). Given that Belarus is the only other European member of the NAM (several countries have observer status), and that most other members are concentrated in Africa and Asia, it is questionable how much interest Azerbaijan will be able to generate in the issue of Nagorny Karabakh among NAM members.