Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee

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The Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee (

right of self-determination and anti-racism.[5]

The SKSSAA was also one of the founders of the

Patrice Lumumba University.[6]

SKSSAA published, jointly with the Institute of Oriental Studies, the sociopolitical and scientific journal Aziia i Afrika Segodnia.[7][8]

As of 1968, Mirzo Tursunzoda was the chairman of SKSSAA.[9] Vladimir Shubin was secretary of SKSSAA at one point.[10] Members of minority populations (such as Caucasian and Central Asian ethnic groups) were highly represented in SKSSAA. Often SKSSAA portrayed the experience of peripheric Soviet regions as models of development towards Third World countries.[5]

Southern Africa

A part of the SKSSAA aid to African liberation movements was channelled through the

Organization for African Unity.[11]

SKSSAA was active internationally in the struggle against

apartheid in South Africa.[1] SKSSAA provided the African National Congress in exile with material resources, such as food, clothes and vehicles.[12] The SKSSAA and other Soviet non-governmental organizations (NGOs) received South Africans in need of medical treatment, and arranged stays for them at Soviet hospitals.[13] The organization also coordinated activities for South African students in the Soviet Union.[14]

Middle East

Until 1974, all visits of the

PFLOAG.[17]

Post-Soviet period

The SKSSAA survived the

fall of the Soviet Union. In 1992 the organization was renamed Society of Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity and Co-operation. It has since mainly focused its work towards the Middle East and Asia. In 2003 Mikhail Margelov was elected president of the Society.[4]

The archives of the SKSSAA are held by the State Archive of the Russian Federation.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee (SKSSAA) / Sovetskii komitet solidarnosti stran Azii i Afriki
  2. ^ a b Dzasokhov, A. Loyalty to solidarity principles
  3. ISBN 0-19-504010-4
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  4. ^
    ISBN 0-415-31858-0
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  5. ^ a b Amos, Jennifer. Soviet Diplomacy and Politics on Human Rights 1945-1975
  6. ^ 10Th Anniversary Of The Lumumba University
  7. ISBN 0-521-35976-7
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  8. ^ Sahai-Achuthan, Nisha. Soviet Indologists and the Institute of Oriental Studies: Works on Contemporary India in the Soviet Union, in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Feb., 1983), pp. 323-343
  9. ISBN 0-470-21611-5
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  10. ^ Vladimir Gennadyevich Shubin (1939 - )
  11. ^ The UN-OAU Conference on Southern Africa - Oslo 9- 14 April 1973
  12. ISBN 1-86888-406-6
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  13. ISBN 1-86888-406-6
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  14. ISBN 1-85043-993-1
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  15. ISBN 0-7099-2901-3
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  16. ISBN 90-286-0609-2
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  17. ISBN 0-8330-2332-2
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