1972 Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers Conference

[3] Delegates from Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Kingdom of Laos staged a protest walk-out to convey dissatisfaction with this decision.

[4] The conference adopted an Action Programme for Economic Co-operation called the "Georgetown Declaration".

The meeting included a call for resolution in the Middle East and the withdrawal of Israel from Arab territories.

[4] The Umana Yana ("meeting place of the people" in the local Waiwai language), a conical palm hut (benab), was erected for as a V.I.P.

[7] Each bust was sculpted in the home country of their likeness, and the quartz base from the Mazaruni area, and decorated with jasper from Orinduik Falls.