KARACHI: The Foreign Minister, Mr Z.A. Bhutto, told a Press Conference in Karachi last evening that “the objectives as well as the provisional agenda of the second African-Asian Conference have been so formulated that Pakistan will be enabled to seek ... the assistance of the entire African-Asian world in finding solutions and adjustments of disputes and differences with India which have so far placed the peace and stability of this region in danger and undermined African-Asian Solidarity”.

Mr Bhutto who had returned earlier in the morning after visiting Manila and attending the preparatory meeting of the Conference proposed to be held in March next year in some African country, said, “In view of the historic significance of the second African-Asian Conference, adequate and thorough preparations will be necessary to make it, as all African-Asian countries wish to do, one of the greatest international congresses of our times”.

He said he has come back from Jakarta “profoundly impressed with the strength of African-Asian solidarity and the enthusiasm and determination of the African-Asian countries”.