Where was the Bandung Conference held in 1955?
The 1955 Bandung conference was one of the most important conferences held in the twentieth century. It’s also one of the least well known. Leaders of the major independent Asian and African countries gathered at this Indonesian city from April 18-22, 1955.
Why was the Gold Coast not invited to the Bandung Conference?
The British government actively discouraged the Gold Coast and the Central African Federation from sending representatives to the Conference. The French ambassador in Washington asked Dulles to use his influence to convince the governments of Liberia and Ethiopia to decline their invitations as well, but Dulles refused to do so.
What did Nasser do at the Bandung Conference?
The Bandung Conference was only Nasser’s second foreign trip since leading the 1952 Free Officers’ Revolution: his previous trip was a pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. For most of the delegates in attendance, the Bandung Conference was also the first time they had engaged with any representative of Communist China.
Why did the US fear the Bandung Conference?
The US security establishment also feared that the Conference would expand China’s regional power.
See Article History. Bandung Conference, a meeting of Asian and African states—organized by Indonesia, Myanmar (Burma), Ceylon (Sri Lanka), India, and Pakistan—which took place April 18–24, 1955, in Bandung, Indonesia. In all, 29 countries representing more than half the world’s population sent delegates.
What was one of the core values of the Bandung Conference?
As noted by author Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo, “One of the core values of the Bandung Conference was self-determination,” that was incorporated, as referred to in the article below, in the ‘declared resolutions’ from the 1955 conference.