Jawaharlal Nehru and Zhou Enlai
Nehru and Zhou Enlai joined together at the time of the Afro-Asian conference of Bandung, whose Nehru was the large instigator, and who was held in April 1955.
From Friday to, met in Bandung, in Indonesia, a conference of the Afro-Asian nations, convened by the governments of Burma, of Ceylon, of India, of Indonesia and Pakistan.
Took part in the conference: Afghanistan, Kampuchea, the People's Republic of China, Egypt, Ethiopia, the Coast of Gold (today Ghana), Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Nepal, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, North and South-Vietnam and Yemen.
On the whole, president Sukarno and its Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo accepted 600 deputy, among whom it is necessary to raise the names of the Nasser Egyptian, the Nehru Indian, Kampuchean Sihanouk, the South-Vietnamese Ngo Dinh Diem and the Zhou Enlai Chinese.
During this conference, called the “Afro-Asian Yalta”, several questions were mentioned and in particular those concerning the political colonialist of France in Soviet Union and North Africa in Turkey and Iraq, the problems of Taiwan, of the Middle East and Western New Guinea.
The Westerners followed with attention this conference and played, in slides, a great part by inspiring their friendly countries or customers. Thus, the United States had provided an economic and military assistance to 20 countries represented with Bandung.
The final communique stated the principles of a common policy. Resting, in a preoccupation with a legality, on the declarations of UNO, the conference the right of the people affirmed to have themselves, condemned the practical colonialists and regretted any policy of racial segregation. She proclaimed also the equality of the races and the nations, and the need for an economic cooperation and cultural.
Expressing its concern in front of the state of world tension, she proposed the prohibition of the manufacture and the experimentation of the nuclear weapons, the need for an international control, and wished the payment of the conflicts by peaceful means.
This conference, placed under the sign of the unit, marks an awakening on the part of the Asian people and African who affirmed their common will of independence and fight against colonialism or the neocolonialism.