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UNESCO acknowledges Asian-African Conference archives as world heritage
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KAA: (Kompas.com/Reni Susanti) (Kompas.com/Reni Susanti)
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UNESCO has officially acknowledged Asian-African Conference archives as a world heritage, an official said on Thursday.
"Asian-African Conference has been acknowledged by UNESCO as a Memory of the World based on a UNESCO session in Abu Dhabi this month," Mustari Irawan, the head of National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI), said as quoted by kompas.com.
ANRI had registered in April the archives of the the first Asian-African Conference in Bandung, West Java, in 1955. The agency had initiated and prepared the registration since 2012.
ANRI proposed photos and related documents of the historic conference from the opening until the final result of the Ten Principles of Bandung (a code of conduct meant to govern the relations and interactions among all nations great and small).
Mustari said the archives are unique.
"The event will be a joined-memory for the countries in Asia and Africa," he said. (rin)
