This objective helps satisfy the "consolidation of genuine independence and the defense of sovereignty against racist policies to ensure economic security for the right to choose their way of socio-economic development, for the promotion of national culture, for a non-violent world and general disarmament, international security, and lasting peace".
The conference was organized by an Egyptian Committee under Anwar Sadat's leadership (later a President of Egypt) with most preparations overseen by the Conference Secretary, Egyptian writer Yusuf Al-Sibai.
The Committee chose the themes to be discussed in the conference and was in charge of soliciting relevant participants.
The Council's name was changed to Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) at a subsequent conference in Conakry, Guinea in April 1960.
The AAPSO accepted three main tasks: Resolutions and recommendations from the Conference in 1957 were used to establish the Constitution of the Afro-Asian People's Solidarity Organization in 1988.