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Bandung principles should be remembered forever: mayor

Xinhua, April 24, 2015 Adjust font size:

The mayor of Indonesia 's Bandung city, where the first Asian-African Conference (AAC) was held in 1955, hoped that people could always keep in mind the "Ten Principles of Bandung."

"We hope these ten principles of 1955 will forever be in our hearts and will forever be the foundation for the future civilization of the great nations of Asia and great countries of Africa," Ridwan Kamil said on Friday.

He made the remarks during the recitation of the ten principles, which was part of the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the first AAC, or the Bandung Conference.

In 1955, representatives from 29 Asian and African countries gathered in Bandung, which Kamil called "the capital of Asia and Africa," to discuss independence, peace and economic prosperity.

The conference adopted a final communique containing the principles, which underlined respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations and recognition of the equality of all races and the equality of all nations. Endi