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Backgrounder: The Ten Principles of Bandung
www.chinaview.cn 2005-04-23 11:08:56

    JAKARTA, April 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The golden Jubilee commemoration of the Asian-African Conference 1955 falls on Sunday in Bandung, Indonesia.

    The result of the 1955 Asian-African Conference was known as the Ten Principles of Bandung, a political statement containing the basic principles in the efforts to promote peace and cooperation in the world. The following are the Ten Principles of Bandung:

    1. Respect for fundamental human rights and for the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.

    2. Respect for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations.

    3. Recognition of the equality of all races and of the equality ofall nations large and small.

    4. Abstention from intervention or interference in the internal affairs of another country.

    5. Respect for the right of each nation to defend itself singly orcollectively, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.

    6. Abstention from the use of arrangements of collective defense to serve the particular interests of any of the big powers, abstention by any country from exerting pressures on other countries.

    7. Refraining from acts or threats of aggression or the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any country.

    8. Settlement of all international disputes by peaceful means, such as negotiation, conciliation, arbitration or judicial settlement as well as other peaceful means of the parties' own choice, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.

    9. Promotion of mutual interests and cooperation.

    10. Respect for justice and international obligation. Enditem

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