IN his biography A Fading Dream, written by his daughter, Retnowati Abdulgani-Knapp, ex-Foreign Minister and one-time speechwriter for President Sukarno, Roeslan Abdgulgani, recalled how the initial reaction to Indonesias proposal that a conference on peace and cooperation among Asians include more than the five original countries involvedBurma (now Myanmar), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India and Pakistanwas one of skepticism.

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