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NOTE
Tlee Assembly of the ORG}ANrZATION OF AFRCCAN
LTvr"rY composed th,e presidents of Africa's states, 41
to date .
floe COC?NCIT . Or llr~rsTErzs of flee states . The
Council sets flee blue print ofactions to be taken.
Z'lee f ollaze~i.ng are items concluded in the Fifth Session
in Algiers, Capital of Algeria, North Africa, September
19G8 .
The Council of Ministers of the OILGANrZATIO~T or
ArttrcnN UNITY, meeting in its 11th Ordinary Session
in Algeria, 1JB8, reaffirmed the inalienable rights of
all people and territories of Africa to freedom and
independence. Thev notice strangely however that the
"Comoro Islands" ~ (in S. E. Africa, in Mozambique
channel N. E. of 1\Iadagaska) are not on the list of
colonial territories under the terms of the LT.N . declaration
granting independence to colonial territories and
peoples .
That being the case, the Council called up the French
Government to take immediate measures to enable the
people of the "(7omoro Islands" to exercise their right
to self-detf~rrnination and independence. It also directed
African group at the I7.N. to press far the inclusion
of those islands on the list of none-self-governing areas .
And to make clear the position of Africa of complete
"liberation of every inch" of African territories the
Ministers ask the Secretary-General to put. the demands
of the OAU before the U.N . Decolonization Committee
to place the Comoro Islands on the list.
The Canned of Ministers noted the reports of the;
Administrative Secretary-General, the committee of five
an Rhodesia as well as the report of the foreign ministers
of Algeria, Senegal and Zambia and recalling
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all the relevant resolutions of the "OPOanrzarrow or
Ar+RrcA~ 17NrTY" and the [7.N . on Rhodesia besides
those of the Security Council, imposing mandatortisanetians
against Rhodesia, without result .
Ivhadesia's reluctance backed by neocolonialists to
acquiesce to peaceful requests, forced the leaders of
Africa to become seriously concerned . They look with
apprehension especially over the continued grave and
dangerous situation, particularly the systematic campaign
of terror, acts of genocide and political murder
carried out by the rebel minority regime against the
African people with immunity .
Patience Approaching Exhaustion
At this time and lacking the atomic bomb, the anly
thing the prattlers of democracy respect, the Council
reaffirmed that the situation in Rhodesia constitutes
a serious threat to international peace and security .
It strongly reffirmed again and again the right of the
people of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) to freedom on the basis
of majority rule, and the right to fight for national
liberation . For those rights, two world wars were
waged and the base upon which the I7.N. was built .
Condemning the genocidal acts as crime against humanity,
the statesmen called upon England again and
again to topple the gangster minority rule by force of
arms as she did in "Guiana" and in4 little "Anguilla."
Foreign Settlers Warned
They further condemned the non-African regime in
South Africa for sending troops to fight the 7.ambians
in their own land and told the European settlers to
withdraw their mercenaries. It is presumed and hopefully
so that the Africans' peaceful and friendly protestatians
might be remembered when self-preservation
compelled them to resort to prevailing means, when
reason falls an deaf ears .
It might be good for all concerned, if those settlers
and their backers, to bear in mind the warning of the
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