Secretariat of the Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation
President:
Ahmed Hamrouch
Secretary General:
Nouri Abdul Razzak Hussain
Vice President:
Resolution on solidarity with Palestine
60 years of suffering and injustice of the Palestinian people have passed already with numerous resolutions of the United Nations (Security Council and General Assembly) in favour of the right of the Palestinians to their own independent and sovereign State, as agreed in the framework of the UN when the state of Israel was founded in 1948.
On Situation in the Caucasus
The 8th Congress of Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organisation has expressed its concern on the critical situation in Caucasus where a brief military conflict took place in the month of August. This conflict should be understood in the background of the strategic design of the United States in the Caucasus.
Speech by E.A. Vidyasekera at the International Conference on "Re-unification of Korea" held from 9th to 16th August 2005 in Pyongyang, the Capital of Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea
Comrade Chairperson
Distinguished Guests
Friends and Comrades",
It is a great pleasure for me to represent the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization at this very important conference.
Preamble:
The Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) is a mass solidarity movement of the peoples of Africa and Asia in the common struggle for the elimination of injustices to the people, for the consolidation of genuine independence and the defence of sovereignty, against aggressive policies, to ensure economic security, for the right to choose their own way of socioeconomic development, for the promotion of national culture, for a non-violent world and for general disarmament, international security and lasting peace.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the outset, I would like to express my deep appreciation to All India Peace and Solidarity Organization (AIPSO) for hosting our Eighth Congress. In fact, this Conference is being convened amidst regional and international circumstances that requires consolidating the efforts of all solidarity organizations and committees in Asia and Africa to face the international changes imposed on the world upon the collapse of the USSR and the endeavour of the US administration under the leadership of President Bush to marginalize the role of the UN and to dominate the world and control the fate of the peoples.
Ladies and Gentlemen
Before I commence my report, I would like to remind this august assembly that it is our duty to honour and pay homage to all those leading personalities of our movement who passed away since the 7th congress held in Delhi 1988.
First of all our revered President Dr. Morad Ghaleb who was elected the President at the 7th congress passed away last year when we were preparing for the 50th anniversary. Among the others I would like to mention following leaders who left us,
1. Bangladesh AAPSO
Prof. Anisuzzaman
Md. Hasan Tarique Chowdhury
2. Burma Council for Democracy and Peace
Kyaw Than
The participants at the 8th Congress of Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organisation thanks the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation for successfully holding the 8th Congress in Hyderabad from 14-16 December 2008. With great enthusiasm and commitment, the AIPSO mobilized with devotion in raising funds, providing accommodation and hospitality to the full satisfaction of the foreign delegates. Their efforts have provided a source of inspiration to others to be committed to the cause of peace and solidarity. Further the presence of a large number of youths from the Indian movement indicate the genuine desire to revitalize the organisation to the new tasks and requirement of the resurgent environment which need to be followed by others as a only viable possibility of strengthening and consolidating the organisation. Once again the participants thanks the AIPSO.
We owe a lot to Bandung
Fifty years after the historic Bandung conference we live in a much changed world. The Soviet Union-led socialist bloc no longer exists, nor does the Soviet Union itself. The U.S. today is the sole superpower, with some of its leading politicians and ideologues planning, writing and propagating for a ‘new American century.’ Now that Bloc politics does not exist, and decolonization is almost complete, many in the North write off the Bandung conference at best as irrelevant history and at worst as an ill conceived adventure that misguided the foreign policy of much of the South depriving them the benefits of Northern aid, trade and capital. It is rewarding to recall what the leaders of the Five Sponsoring Countries said then in April 1955, to see how contemporary some of the key concerns in Bandung were.