<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is incomplete . Please help to improve it, or discuss the issue on the talk page . (April 2012) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article is incomplete . Please help to improve it, or discuss the issue on the talk page . (April 2012) </Td> </Tr> <P> The first large - scale Asian--African or Afro--Asian Conference--also known as the Bandung Conference (Indonesian: Konferensi Asia - Afrika)--was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on April 18--24, 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia . The twenty - nine countries that participated at the Bandung Conference represented nearly one - quarter of the Earth's land surface and a total population of 1.5 billion people, roughly 54% of the Earth's population at the time . The conference was organised by Indonesia, Burma, Pakistan, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and India and was coordinated by Ruslan Abdulgani, secretary general of the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs . </P> <P> The conference's stated aims were to promote Afro - Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism or neocolonialism by any nation . The conference was an important step toward the Non-Aligned Movement . </P>

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