The first Asian-African conference was held at Bandung in 1955. It created an epoch moment in international political history after the second world war to the extent that it was the first manifestation by the Asian and African nations of their intention to solve their own problems in an Asian-African way, through solidarity.
However, in the years since the Bandung Conference, and particularly in the sixties, the political constellation and the interrelations among the Asian-African countries had changed very dramatically.
Chinese aggression toward India in 1962 had its impact among the Asian-African nations. The impact of this conflict was very large because these two major Asian countries had played an leading role at the Bandung Conference. Among the new emerging African nations existed unbridgeable divisions. There was the so-called Casablanca group, in which Ghana and Epypt played a dominant role, while another bloc constituted itself as the Monrovia group, with Nigeria as the leading nation.
Among others, the Sino-Soviet Conflict created farreaching consequences on the Asian African nations, dividing these states into two-blocs supporting either China (as, for instance, Indonesia), or Russia (as, for instance, India). One insisted on the anti-colonial struggle against the Western powers and advocated the second Asian-African conference. The other gave primacy to the general principles of non-aligument, peaceful coexistence and supported the second nonaligned conference. This antagonism dominated the foreign affairs of Asian and African countries and competed with each other for the priority between these two conferences in 1964-65. For example, Sukaruo emphasized that the primary aim of the Asian and African countries should be to eliminate the old estabilished order as represented by the forces of colonialism and imperialism. On the other, Nehru advocated world peace and peaceful coexistence among the nations irrespective of their social system.
Eventually, the second nonaligned conference was held at Cairo in 1964, but the second Asian-African conference was postponed indefinitely. In the course of this political process one thing became clear that the Asian-African solidarity was a mith and an empty dream. In this sence we cannot place too much emphasize on the impact of the Sino-Soviet conflict on the Asian-African foreign affairs in 1964-65. After their independence, Asian-African nations began to pursue their own national interests. These weak nations, econmically and politically, could not but be drawn into the Sino-Soviet conflict as well as the East-West conflict.

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