Based on the Ten Principles of Bandung, the criteria for NAM membership were determined in the preparatory conference. In order to be considered as a member of the movement, a country should meet the following criteria: 1. The country should adopt an independent foreign policy based on the co-existence of states with different political and social systems and on non-alignment, or should be showing a trend in favor of such a policy. 2. The country concerned should be consistently supporting movements for national independence. 3. The country should not be a member of a multilateral military alliance concluded in the context of great power conflicts. 4. If a country has a bilateral military agreement with a great power or is a member of a regional defense pact, the agreement or pact should not be one deliberately concluded in the context of great power conflicts. 5. If it has conceded military bases to a foreign power, the concession should not have been made in the context of Great Power conflicts.