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Background: DELEGATIONS FROM 22 COUNTRIES ARE MEETING IN DJAKARTA TO DISCUSS HOLDING A SECOND AFRO-ASIAN CONFERENCE. THE LAST ONE WAS THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE NINE YEARS AGO.

FIRM SHOWS SHOTS OF DELEGATES FROM MOROCCO, GHANA, THE CHINESE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC, THE CAMEROON REPUBLIC, SYRIA AND TURKEY.

THE FIVE-DAY TALKS GOT UNDER WAY IN THE INDONESIA CAPITAL ON FRIDAY. THE ARE BEING HELD IN SECRET, BUT IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT SOME COUNTRIES WILL TRY TO PUT FORWARD PROPOSALS AIMED AT HEALING THE CURRENT SINO-SOVIET IDEOLOGICAL DISPUTE.

ACCORDING TO CONFERENCE SOURCES, INDIA PROPOSED THAT THE SOVIET UNION SHOULD ATTEND A SECOND AFRO-ASIAN SUMMIT. THIS HAD BEEN EXPECTED TO PRODUCED A VERBAL CLASH, BUT MARSHAL CHEN YI, THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER WHO IS HEADING HIS COUNTRY'S DELEGATION, MADE NO REFERENCE TO IT IN HIS SPEECH.

SHOULD THEY DECIDE ON A SECOND CONFERENCE, DELEGATES ARE EXPECTED TO NAME THE TIME AND PLACE. INDIA HAS SUGGESTED THAT A CONFERENCE BE HELD NEXT APRIL (1965) IN AN AFRICAN COUNTRY.