^{Page 268 note 1} Statut de l'organisation des états riverains du Sénégal: amendé (Dakar, 1970), articles 1–5.Google Scholar This document is hereinafter cited as the Convention… for the Establishment of the Organisation of Senegal River States.

^{Page 268 note 2} Convention, articles 8–11 and 13.

^{Page 268 note 3} Ibid. 14–16 and 18.

^{Page 268 note 4} Ibid. 20–2.

^{Page 268 note 5} Ibid. 26–7.

^{Page 269 note 1} Ibid. 28–9.

^{Page 269 note 2} Ibid. 19.

^{Page 269 note 3} Ibid. 35.

^{Page 269 note 4} For a detailed analysis of the Inter-State Committee for the Senegal River Basin, see Gautron, J.-C., ‘L'Aménagement du bassin du fleuve Sénégal’, in Annuaire français du droit international, 1967 (Paris, 1968), pp. 690–702.Google Scholar

^{Page 271 note 1} Le Soleil (Dakar), 25 11 1970, p. 1.Google Scholar

^{Page 271 note 2} See The Economist (London), 30 01 1971, p. 36.Google Scholar

^{Page 271 note 3} The non-attendance of Sékou Touré at international conferences has become increasingly common in recent years. It is said that the President has ventured Out of Guinea only once in the last five years, perhaps to avoid a fate similar to that of his friend Kwame Nkrumah, who was overthrown while visiting Peking.

^{Page 272 note 1} Le Soleil, 14 04 1971, p. 3.Google Scholar

^{Page 272 note 2} It has been alleged that when the plane from Bathurst arrived in Conakry there were no passengers, thus giving rise to the speculation that the 38 Guinean exiles were killed and discharged in flight. If this information reached the ears of Senghor, it is likely to have reinforced his conviction that, for humanitarian reasons, Senegal was correct in not following the example of the Gambia.

^{Page 273 note 1} Le Moniteur africain (Dakar), 24 06 1971, p. 3.Google Scholar

^{Page 274 note 1} Rapport de la ‘Table ronde’ sur les perspectives de développement intégré du bassin du fleuve Sénégal (Dakar, 1971), p. 3.Google Scholar

^{Page 274 note 2} Among those represented at the Round Table were: the U.N. Development Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the African Development Bank, the European Development Fund, the Food and Agricultural Organisation, and the Governments of Canada, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Yugoslavia.

^{Page 275 note 1} For an entertaining and perceptive account of problems in this area, see Aynor, H. S., Notes from Africa (London, 1969).Google Scholar

^{Page 275 note 2} See, for example, New York Times, 9 04 1971, p. 1;Google ScholarJeune Afrique (Paris), 29 09 1970, p. 22;Google Scholar and ‘Peking's New African Look’, in Africa Report (New York), 03 1971, p. 19.Google Scholar

^{Page 275 note 3} Cf. Informations d'outre-mer (Paris), 2 06 1971, p. 5.Google Scholar

^{Page 275 note 4} President Senghor claimed in a broadcast on Radio Dakar on 35 May 1968 that ‘The most serious thing is that non-Senegalese have joined the Senegalese’ in the anti-government manifestations, and that there was now ‘a secret opposition operating under the cover of student and trade union demands’. He later went on to explain that he was referring to the Chinese Communists. In 1969 he expressed a similar opinion; Dakar matin,4 April 1969.

^{Page 275 note 5} Senegal has, in fact, recently agreed to open diplomatic relations with China at ambassadorial level; West Africa (London) 21 01 1972.Google Scholar

^{Page 275 note 6} The other members are Dahomey, the Ivory Coast, Niger, Togo, and Upper Volta.

^{Page 276 note 1} See, in general, International Monetary Fund, Surveys of African Economics, vol. 3 (Washington, 1970), p. 71;Google ScholarMarc, Saint, Zone franc et décolonialisation (Paris, 1964);Google ScholarHayter, Teresa, French Aid (London, 1966), pp. 61–71;Google Scholar and ‘The CFA Franc System’, in International MonetaryFund Staff Papers (Washington), X, 3, pp. 345–80.Google Scholar

^{Page 276 note 2} The current parity is 1 C.F.A. franc=0·02 French francs.

^{Page 276 note 3} The Economist Intelligence Unit, Former French West Africa, Togo: Annual Supplement (London, 1970), p. 4.Google Scholar

^{Page 276 note 4} The current black market value of the Guinean franc is approximately one-fifth of the C.F.A. franc. There are many contraband and illegal currency transactions; see Diallo, Ibrahima, Enquête sur l'immigration des guinéans à Dakar (U.N. Institute for Economic Development and Planning, Dakar, 1971).Google Scholar

^{Page 277 note 1} Discours d'ouverture par le Camarade Alimed Sékou Touré, O.E.R.S. 2ème conférence au sommet', in Révolution démocratique africaine (Conakry, 1970), p. 33.Google Scholar

^{Page 277 note 2} Conférence des Ministres du plan et de l'industrie (Dakar, 1970), p. 12.Google Scholar

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^{Page 278 note 1} Source: Statistical Office of the European Community, Associated Foreign Trade Yearbook (Brussels), 1967–1969.Google Scholar Complete statistics are not readily available for Guinea and Mauritania, but their O.E.R.S. trade figures may, to some extent, be gathered from this table. Imports are calculated at c.i.f. and exports at f.o.b.

^{Page 279 note 1} Conférence des Ministres du plan et de l'industries, p. 11.

^{Page 280 note 1} Source: statistics supplied by the Member States.

^{Page 280 note 2} Réunion de Ia Commission inter-états de l'éleuage et des productions animales (Conakry, 1970).Google Scholar

^{Page 282 note 1} Gautron, loc. cit. p. 702.

^{Page 283 note 1} Jeune Afrique, 18 12 1971, p. 14.Google Scholar

^{Page 283 note 2} West Africa, 10 12 1971, p. 1439.Google Scholar

^{Page 283 note 3} Le Moniteur africain, 20 01 1972, p. 1.Google Scholar

^{Page 283 note 4} The text appears in the United Nations Treaty Series (New York), vol. 595,Google Scholar and in Brownlie, Ian (ed.), Basic Documents on African Affairs (Oxford, 1971), pp. 58–62.Google Scholar