UN General Assembly
1955

46. Twenty-nine countries of Asia and Africa, representing about 1,400 million people of this earth (approximately 600 million more people than are represented in this General Assembly) sent their top representatives to this great meeting — a meeting unprecedented in the history of our peoples, if not in the history of the world. We realized the heavy responsibilities we had assumed in the face of the tremendous burdens weighing upon mankind in this troubled and divided world. It was a great undertaking. It marked also the fundamental, and significant changes — social and political — which have taken place in the community of nations today. As President Sukarno, President of the Republic of Indonesia, stirringly told the opening session of the Asian-African Conference: “Asia and Africa have been reborn; nay, a new Asia and a new Africa have been born!”