UN General Assembly
1954

31. The Powers participating in the Colombo Conference have felt the urgent need, particularly in these crucial times, for close co-operation in the political, economic and cultural fields. And it is in the way pointed out by the Colombo Conference decisions on colonialism, as well as by the anti-colonial resolution adopted at the Inter-American Conference at Bogota in 1948 and in Caracas in 1954, that the colonial danger in the world should properly be met by common action and with mutual understanding. In particular, a significant outcome of this Conference was the initiation of preparations to hold, in the near future, a wider conference of African and Asian nations in order to discuss further world problems still pending, especially those which directly affect these countries.