Write short note: Bandung conference

Answer: The Bandung conference was the conference of newly independent Asian and African nations held at Bandung in Indonesia in April 1955.

• 29 countries took part; Pandit Nehru, Sukarno of Indonesia, Nasser of Egypt and Zhou Enlai of China were prominent leaders.
• It opposed colonialism, imperialism and racial discrimination and called for Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation.
• It adopted ten principles of peaceful co-existence, based on India’s Panchasheel.
• It laid the foundation of the Non-Aligned Movement, formally started at Belgrade in 1961.