ARAB-AFRICAN COOPERATION.

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First Arabo-African Ministerial Conference (Dakar, 19th-22 April 1976). First edition, celebrating the first meeting of foreign ministers from 55 African and Arab countries, along with representatives of multiple independence movements and two banking institutions. This was the forerunner to the first conference of heads of state, held from 7 to 9 March 1977, where political and economic co-operation between the OAU and the League of Arab States would be formalized.This work records the addresses given by various ministers throughout the conference, contributions from representatives of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and the African Development Bank, and a full list of delegates. As noted by Leopold Sedar Senghor, president of the Republic of Senegal, in his opening speech, "our concern is not so much actually to solve problems, as to state them, define institutional structures, and discover a method of solving our problems" (p. 14). With this groundwork, the conference of heads of state resulted in an agreement that condemned imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, and apartheid, secured $1.45 billion of funding from Arab states to African countries, and declared guerilla operations in Palestine and South Africa as joint Afro-Arab causes.

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