The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh will release a Commemorative Postage, here tomorrow on Bandung Conference 1955, in the denomination of Rs. 15/-, to mark the completion of 50 years. It was in April 18-24, 1955 the Bandung Conference was convened upon the invitation of the Prime Ministers of Burma, Ceylon, India, Indonesia and Pakistan and was attended by 24 other Asian and African countries. Bandung Conference was the first meeting of the newly born independent states of Africa and Asia which gave clarion call for the independence of the subjugated people. This conference was collective effort by the Afro-Asian nations to assert their presence on the world stage thereby marked the germination of ideas of South-South Cooperation.
Bandung, located in Central Java, Indonesia hosted this conference to bring together some of the towering personalities of those days who envisaged a global order based on equality among nations, territorial integrity, sovereignty and development for all. The leaders were concerned not only with the great issues of prevalent at that point of time. The neo independent countries participating in that meeting firmly believed that another world order was not only conceivable but also possible. Thus Bandung initiated the process of the nations of South coming together, to renew their ancient links that had been served under colonialism and to cooperate through exchange of experts and know-how, etc. The Conference was the forerunner of many economic ideas such as diversification of export baskets, value addition to exports, intra-regional economic and commercial links and exchange of commercial information.
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(Release ID :8617)