JAKARTA, April 22 – Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said Malaysia will continue to play a role in making countries in the continent of Asia and Africa to be more united.
“We will continue to play a role in supporting any form of forum, dialogue and so on in order to make these countries more united,” he told reporters after the Asia Africa Conference 60th Anniversary Commemoration (AACC) Ministerial Meeting in Jakarta, Wednesday. Commenting on the AACC, Ahmad Shabery believed that this year’s Asian-African summit was very significant as it commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Afro-Asian conference, which was first held in Bandung in 1955.
“At that time, there were many countries that still did not achieve their independence and the conference had actually driven the people and leaders of these countries to gain independence,” he said. The minister said that even at that time, Malaysia itself had yet to achieve independence and Indonesia managed to organise the Bandung conference, which had discussed the struggle for independence.
