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The meaning of the Bandung conference
The non-alignment and the South-South co-operation that started at Bandung has never been about shutting others out, but allowing the global majority to develop its own path, free of exploitation and interference, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Plenary session during the Bandung Conference, Indonesia, 1955. The 10 principles agreed upon at Bandung called for respect for human rights, respect for sovereignty, equality, non-intervention in the internal affairs of other nations, the right to self-defence, and abstaining from collective defence arrangements.
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THE 1955 landmark Bandung Conference is still having a major impact on international foreign policy thinking nearly 70 years later.
The conference, held in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together representatives from 29 African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries in one of the first major transnational expressions of opposition to racism and colonialism.
Participants at Bandung represented countries such as Egypt, China, India and, of course, Indonesia.
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