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Casablanca Powers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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A summit meeting of the Presidents of Ghana, Guinea, Mali, and the United Arab Republic, attended also by the Libyan Foreign Minister, the Ceylonese Ambassador in Cairo, and Premier Ferhat Abbas of the Algerian provisional government, was convened in Casablanca by King Mohammed of Morocco in early January 1961 for the purpose of coordinating policy on the Congo and of considering a suggestion for the formation of an African high military command. Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Liberia, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, Togoland, and Tunisia were invited but did not attend the conference. Excluding Ghana, all those states present which had troops with the UN Operations in the Congo (ONUC) had announced their intention of withdrawing them prior to the meeting.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: II. Political and Regional Groupings in Africa
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1962

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33 Ellis, Harry B., “Failure at Casablanca,” New Leader, 02 20, 1961 (Vol. 44, No. 8), p. 1415Google Scholar; Roberts, Margaret, “Summitry at Casablanca,” Africa South, 0406 1961 (Vol. 5, No. 3), p. 6874Google Scholar, Casablanca ‘Summit,’Venture, 02 1961 (Vol. 13, No. 2), p. 12Google Scholar, and Pan-Africa and the Congo,” West Africa, 01 14, 1961 (No. 2276), p. 31Google Scholar; African Leaders Convene at Rival ‘Summits,’Africa Report, 01 1961 (Vol. 6, No. 1), p. 11Google Scholar; and African Summit Meeting,” West Africa, 01 7, 1961 (No. 2275), p. 11Google Scholar. See also The Christian Science Monitor, January 3 and 5, 1961; The Manchester Guardian, January 9 and 13, 1961; The New York Times, January 1, 5, and 8, 1961; and The Times (London), 01 9, 1961Google Scholar.

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35 See below.

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