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March 23, 1955

Cable from Huang Zhen, 'It Would Be Best if the Delegation Attending the Asian-African Conference has a Muslim Member'

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[Forward to] Zhang Vice-Minister’s Office, [Chen] Jiakang, Ke [print illegible], Gong Peng

Priority: Special

From: Indonesia

Date: 1955, March, 23

Forwarded to: [Zhou] Enlai, [Deng] Xiaoping, Chen Yi, [Xi] Zhongxun, Foreign Ministry, State Ethnic Affairs Commission

 

It Would Be Best if the Delegation Attending the Asian-African Conference has a Muslim Member

 

To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

 

After research, we believe it would be better to include one Muslim member in the delegation attending the Asian-African conference. This is because there are many Muslim countries attending this conference; in addition, Indonesia itself is a country with a lot of Muslim sects and parties. Please consider whether or not this is appropriate.

 

Huang Zhen

23 March [1955]

 

Huang Zhang suggests having at least one Muslim in the members of Chinese delegation to the Asian-African Conference due to that many participating countries are Islamic countries.


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PRC FMA 207-00064-13, 23. Translated by Jeffrey Wang

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