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The Organs of Economic Co-operation in Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Louis B. Sohn
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In studying economic co-operation in Africa, it might be useful to start with an investigation of the special characteristics of African international organizations, and the effect of these characteristics on the modalities of African economic co-operation.

Any comparative study of African international organizations has to take into account the bewildering variety of these organizations, and the difficulty of classifying them in a meaningful fashion. There are many factors which need to be considered, as well as the fact that most organizations belong at the same time to various categories. When one tries to evaluate the respective merits of various organizations, one finds quickly that it is really not a particular feature of an organization that matters, but that an organization's performance depends, to an important extent, on the special mixture of various characteristics, which is peculiar to that organization.

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Papers of the Uppsala Conference
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Journal of African Law , Volume 16 , Issue 3: Special number: UPPSALA CONFERENCE O LEGAL MECHANISMS OF ECON CO-OPERATION IN AFRICAN INTER ORGANIZATIONS , Autumn/Automne 1972 , pp. 212 - 219
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1972

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2 For an excellent survey of inter-African organizations existing in 1972, see Economic Commission for Africa, Directory of Intergovernmental Co-operation Organizations in Africa (UN Doc. E/CN.14/CEC/1; June 6th, 1972), 94 pp. (hereafter cited as ECA Directory).

3 For a collection of some 200 documents relating to inter-African organizations up to 1969, see Sohn, Louis B., Basic Documents of African Regional Organizations (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., 1971–72), 4 vols., 1854Google Scholar pp. (hereafter cited as Basic Documents). See also Torres, J. M. Cordero, Textos básicos de Africa (Madrid, 1962), 2 vols.Google Scholar; Legum, Colin, Pan-Africanism: A Short Political Guide (Revised ed., New York, 1965), 326 pp.Google Scholar; Rainero, Romain, Documenti della Organizzazione Africana (Padua, 1967), 512 pp.Google Scholar

4 For a comparative study of these organizations, see UN Secretary-General, Study on the Question of Establishing in Due Time Appropriate Machinery for the Promotion of the Exploration and Exploitation of the Resources of the Sea-Bed … (UN Doc. A/AC.138/12/Add.1; June 30th, 1969), UN General Assembly, Official Records, 24th Session, Suppl. No. 22 (A/7622) p. 81, at 120–124. For the texts of some of the relevant documents, see Panhuys, H. F. Van and others, International Organization and Integration: A Collection of the Texts of Documents relating to the United Nations, Its Related Agencies and Regional Organizations (Leiden, 1968), 298–332, 341–349, 536–543.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 213 note 1 For the constitutional texts of these organizations, see Basic Documents, Vol. III, 1145, 1281, 1346, 1362, 1436.

page 213 note 2 See ECA Directory, p. 14.

page 213 note 3 For the constitutional texts of the various OCAM organizations, see Basic Documents, Vol. I, 358–62, and Vol. II, 395–537. With respect to GAMES, see ECA Directory, p. 74.

page 213 note 4 Basic Documents, Vol. II, 400, and Vol. III, 1362.

page 213 note 5 For a tentative classification of international organizations, see Abdullah El-Erian, First Report on Relations between States and Inter-Governmental Organizations (UN Doc. A/CN.4/161; June 11th, 1963), Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1963, Vol. II, 159, at 164–169.

page 214 note 1 With respect to the African Development Bank, see Basic Documents, Vol. I, 149–250.

page 214 note 2 For the text of these documents, see Basic Documents, Vol. I, 42, 49, 55; Vol. II, 901; and Vol. III, 1015, 1032, 1045.

page 214 note 3 Basic Documents, Vol. II, 507.

page 214 note 4 ECA Directory, 30, 36, 37.

page 214 note 5 Basic Documents, Vol. IV, 1489–1496.

page 214 note 6 Id., Vol. I, 149.

page 214 note 7 ECA Directory, 67, 77.

page 214 note 8 Id., 73.

page 215 note 1 Report of the Council of FAO, 48th Session (1967), 7; FAO Doc. CL49/13 (Sept. 11th, 1967).

page 215 note 2 Basic Documents, Vol III, 1015, 1032, 1045.

page 215 note 3 ECA Directory, 21, 65.

page 215 note 4 Id., 9.

page 215 note 5 Id., 42, 90; Basic Documents, Vol. II, 873.

page 216 note 1 See, for instance, Basic Documents, Vol. II, 401, 495, 681, 737, 801; ECA Directory, 83.

page 216 note 2 Basic Documents, Vol. III, 1281, 1346, 1362, 1436.

page 216 note 3 Sundström, G. O. Zacharias, Public International Utility Corporations (Leiden, 1972), 19–39.Google Scholar

page 216 note 4 Id., 63–83.

page 216 note 5 Basic Documents, Vol. II, 538–608.

page 216 note 6 Id., Vol. I, 149; Vol. II, 780, 908, 942, 963.

page 217 note 1 Id., Vol. III, 1056–1059, 1066–1069.