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"VDB-3-'63." ; Caption title. ; Includes bibliographical references. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Translation of address before the Royal institute of international affairs, London, Eng., June 7, 1961.

At a meeting in Accra, which took place from April 27 to 29, 1961, Presidents Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Sékou Touré of Guinea, and Modibo Keita of Mali signed a charter formally establishing a tripartite Union of African States. The charter came into effect upon its simultaneous publication on July 1 in the capitals of Ghana, Guinea, and Mali after the three heads of state had met at Bamako, Mali, on June 26 in order to examine the extent to which decisions reached at their April meeting in Accra had been implemented. The drafting of the charter evolved out of a decision announced by the three government leaders at Conakry, Guinea, on December 24, 1960, envisioning common diplomatic representation and the creation of committees to draw up arrangements for harmonizing economic and monetary policies.

An attempt to analyse new trends in fam relations in Mali & Guinea under new SE conditions. Legislation of the independent states is used to strenghten monogamy, limit marriage payments etc., (state measures being part of an emancipation of African women policy. Extreme demand for skilled labor in the developing countries preconditions emancipation. Comparative figures of female employment in some Soviet Republics (Azerbaijan, Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Tadjik, Kirghiz) are added to show eventual labor reserves. Materials of 1962 field-work are used.

'Bread … before politics' was the aim set for this session of E.C.A. in an early address by the Commission's retiring chairman, M Oumar Baba Diarra of Mali. Fittingly enough, these words were attributed to Cyrille Adoula, whose host government had been striving to transform those energies yielding Congolese friction into efforts to satisfy the basic needs of human existence, so appallingly evident on every hand to guests in Leopoldville. The conference agenda prepared through the initiative of E.C.A.'s secretariat was laden with economic questions of both short-and long-term significance.

Representatives of twenty independent African states [Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville), Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Libya, Malagasy, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo, Tunisia, and Upper Volta] met in Monrovia from May 8 to 12, 1961, to consider four major items: means of promoting better understanding and cooperation toward achieving unity in Africa; threats to peace and stability in Africa; establishment of special machinery to which African states might refer in case of disputes among themselves; and possible contribution of African states to world peace. Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, the Sudan, and the United Arab Republic were unrepresented at the conference.