The Asian-African Conference The Asian-African Conference, also
known as the Bandung Conference, was held in Bandung, Indonesia
from 18 to 24 April, 1955. In April 1954, the Indonesian
Government proposed the convocation of an Asian-African
conference. In December of the same year, the five Prime
Ministers of Burma, Ceylon(Sri Lanka), India, Indonesia and
Pakistan held a conference in Bogor, Indonesia and reached an
agreement on convening an Asian-African conference and decided
that the conference would be jointly proposed by the five
countries. The conference was attended by 29 Asian and African
countries besides the five countries mentioned above, namely,
Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Gold Coast
(Ghana), Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia,
Libya, Nepal, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria,
Thailand, Turkey, the Vietnam Democratic Republic, South Vietnam
(later reunified with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and
Yemen (Republic of Yemen). The Conference was chai