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and has around 26-50 staff. The AAPSO was founded as the Solidarity Council of the Afro-Asian Countries at a

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held in Cairo December 1957 to January 1958. The name was changed to its present form at the second conference held in

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in April 1960. The AAPSO has 90 national committees. The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee was a charter member. Observer status was held by the

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, World Federation of Democratic Youth,

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and the World Peace Council.Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization
in the ''

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'' 1979

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Afro-Asian Solidarity and the World Mission of the Peoples of Africa and Asia
by

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, a speech given at the founding congress Organizations established in 1957 Third-Worldism Afro-Asia {{Egypt-org-stub

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