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BANDUNG ASIAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE April 18-24, 1955 SUMMARY DATA Presented by Darwis Khudori. FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OUTSIDE THE U.N. 2/3 OF MANKIND OUTSIDE THE WESTERN WORLD OUTSIDE THE TWO BLOCS OF SUPERPOWERS
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BANDUNG ASIAN-AFRICAN CONFERENCE April 18-24, 1955 SUMMARY DATA Presented by Darwis Khudori
FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THE BIGGEST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OUTSIDE THE U.N. 2/3 OF MANKIND OUTSIDE THE WESTERN WORLD OUTSIDE THE TWO BLOCS OF SUPERPOWERS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT AND THE THIRD WORLD THE ENTERING OF THE THIRD WORLD IN INTERNATIONAL POLITIC Zhou En-lai (China), Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt), Nehru (India), Sukarno (Indonesia), besides U Nu (Burma), Sir John Kotelawala (Ceylon), Mohammed Ali Bogra (Pakistan)
PARTICIPANTS 29 COUNTRIES 15 COUNTRIES OF ASIA: Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, People’s Republic of China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Vietnam, State of Vietnam
9 COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE-EAST: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Yemen 5 COUNTRIES ONLY OF AFRICA: Gold Coast, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sudan, Libya 5 OBSERVERS COUNTRIES: Algeria, Cyprus, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia
HEADS OF DELEGATIONS AFGHANISTAN: Sardar Mahmud Naim SAUDI ARABIA: Prince Feisal BURMA: U-Nu CAMBODIA: Prince Norodom Sihanouk CEYLON: Sir John Kotelawala PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA : Zhou En-lai EGYPT: Gamal Abdel Nasser ETHIOPIA: Yilma Deresa GOLD COAST: Kojo Botsio INDIA: Jawaharlal Nehru INDONESIA: Ali Sastroamidjojo
IRAQ: Mohammed Fadhel Jamali IRAN: Djalal Abdoh JAPAN: Takasaki Tatsunosuke JORDAN: Huza El-Majali LAOS: Kathay D. Sasorith LEBANON: Sami Sohl LIBERIA: Momulu Dukuly LIBYA: Mahmud Bey Muntasser NEPAL: Sovag Jung Thapa PAKISTAN: Mohamed Ali Bogra PHILIPPINES: Carlos Romulo SUDAN : Ismael El-Azhari THAILAND: Wan Waythayakon
SYRIA: Khaled El-Azem TURKEY: Rustu Fatin Zorlu DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM: Pham Van Dong STATE OF VIETNAM: Nguyen Van Thoai YEMEN: Seif El-Islam El-Hassan OBSERVERS ALGERIA: Mohammed Yazid and Hocine Aït Ahmed CYPRUS: Archbishop Makarios MOROCCO: Allal El-Fassi and Ben Gelloun PALESTINE: Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Amin El-Husseini TUNISIA: Salah ben Youssef and Taïeb Slim
FINAL COMMUNIQUÉ • « The Asian-African Conference considered problems of common interest and concern to countries of Asia and Africa and discussed ways and means by which their people could achieve fuller economic, cultural and political cooperation ». • Economic Cooperation • Cultural Cooperation • C) Human Rights and Self Determination • D) Problems of Dependent Peoples • E) Other Problems • F) Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation • G) Declaration on the Promotion of World Peace and Cooperation
DASA SILA BANDUNG 1. Respect for fundamental human rights and for the purposes and principles of the charter of the United Nations 2. Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations 3. Recognition of the equality of all races and of the equality of all nations large and small 4. Abstention from intervention or interference in the internal affairs of another country 5. Respect for the right of each nation to defend itself, singly or collectively, in conformity with the charter of the United Nations
6. a) Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defence to serve any particular interests of the big powers b) Abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries 7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country 8. Settlement of all international disputes by peaceful means, such as negotiation, conciliation, arbitration or judicial settlement as well as other peaceful means of the parties own choice, in conformity with the charter of the United Nations 9. Promotion of mutual interests and cooperation 10. Respect for justice and international obligations
BANDUNG EFFECTS IMMEDIATE POLITICAL IMPACTS ADMISSION OF AFRICAN AND ASIAN COUNTRIES IN THE U.N.: December 1955: Cambodia, Ceylon, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal 1956: Japan, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia 1957: Ghana and Malaysia
RECONQUEST OF INDEPENDENCE OF AFRICA 1955-1965 31 countries of Africa gained their independence 1956 : Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia 1957 : Gold Coast (Ghana) 1958 : Guinea
1960 : Benin, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), Cameroon, Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasha), Ivory Coast, Gabon, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, Tchad, Togo 1961 : Sierra Leone 1962 : Algeria, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda 1963 : Kenya 1964 : Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia 1965 : Gambia
FINAL COMMUNIQUE • PRECISE CLAIMS OF THE CONFERENCE • SETTLED • Independence of North Africa (1956-1962) • Integration of West Irian to Indonesia (1963-1969) • End of apartheid in South Africa (1994) • End of British protectorate in Yemen (1967) • Reunification of Vietnam (1976) • NOT YET SETLLED • The question of Palestine
FINAL COMMUNIQUE OTHER QUESTIONS ECONOMIC COOPERATION: Asian-African Financial Cooperation – Asian-African Joint Ventures – Collective actions for stabilizing the international price of primary commodities – Processing raw material for export, etc. CULTURAL COOPERATION: Acquisition of knowledge of each other's country – Mutual cultural exchange – Exchange of information, etc. WORLD PEACE AND COOPERATION: Equitable geographical representation in Security Council – Disarmament and prohibition of production, experimentation and use of nuclear, thermo-nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction – International control of armament, etc.