THE AFRO-ASIAN ECONOMIC SEMINAR

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THE AFRO-ASIAN ECONOMIC SEMINAR
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THE AFRO-ASIAN ECONOMIC SEMINAR
The Economic Seminar in Algeria sponsored by the Afro-Asian
Peoples Solidarity Organization closed on 28 February after 6 days of
deliberation. It was attended by low-level delegations from almost
40 Afro-Asian nations and committees of national liberation move-
ments as well as observers from Cuba, the Organization of African
Unity, the Asian Economic Office, and the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa. Both the USSR and Communist China sent
large delegations. The Seminar was notable both for the Chinese-
oriented proposals advanced by some of the participants, particularly
Algeria and Cuba, and for the absence of the Sino-Soviet polemics that
have characterized similar forums in the past.
1. The Final. Declaration
The final declaration of the Seminar, which reflected many of the
more extreme proposals advanced during the meeting by Algeria and
Cuba, included calls for (a) an intensification of the national liberation
struggle, including aid in arms, equipment, finances, and military
training to the liberation movements; (b) an economic boycott against,
and a break in diplomatic relations with, the "colonialist" countries;
(c) a limitation of economic relations with imperialist countries;
(d) the promotion of economic. relations between the Afro-Asian coun-
tries and the socialist countries on the basis of unconditional aid without
interest; (e) the further development of ties in all fields with the revolu-
tionary countries of Latin America and especially with Cuba, and (f) the
adoption of a series of institutional and fiscal measures designed to
enhance the economic independence and viability of the Afro-Asian coun-
tries.
There were strong expressions of anti-Westernism at the Seminar,
but it was the socialist countries as developed nations who were called
on to increase both military and economic aid to less developed
countries -- free of charge if possible. Cuban Minister of Industries
Che Guevara, the only high-level official at the Seminar, demanded
that countries "on the path of liberty" should be aided even at the
expense of the developed socialist countries.
2. Sino-Soviet Participation
The Chinese Communist delegate reiterated many of the same
points advanced by Communist China at the Asian Economic Seminar
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held in Pyongyang, North Korea, in June 1964. Reaffirming the virtues
of self-reliance and urging that most developmental capital be generated
from internal sources, the Chinese delegate nevertheless acknowledged
it the duty of socialist states to aid developing countries and promised
continued Chinese assistance, particularly for "enterprises requiring
less investment and yielding quicker results. " He made reference to
the Eight Principles of Chinese foreign aid first enunciated during Chou
En-lai's African tour in early 1964* but noted that they were only
preliminary and invited suggestions for their improvement or supple-
mentation: Repeatedly stressing the similarity in experience and
problems of China and other Afro-Asian nations through "long years of
imperialist aggression and plundering, " he proclaimed the Chinese
experience in economic development a useful reference for other ( ou.n-
tries.
The Soviet delegate, in contrast, primarily stressed trade rather
than aid as the most effective assistance that the USSR could offer less
developed countries and spoke of helping such countries by purchasing
their finished products, by reducing tariffs the USSR formally
abolished tariffs on imports from less developed countries in January
1965), and by concluding long-term trade agreements.
Possibly in response to expressions of disapproval voiced by many
Afro-Asian leaders against Sino-Soviet wrangling at previous Afro-
Asian meetings, ** both the Soviet and Chinese delegates carefully
avoided in their speeches any attacks on or hostile remarks about the
other. It is possible that the two countries, increasingly sensitive to
Afro-Asian unwillingness to become embroiled in the internecine
Sino-Soviet quarrel, do not intend to press their polemics in such
forums as energetically as they have done in the past.
4 For a discussion of the Eight Principles, see CIA/RR CB 64-34,
Communist China's Eight Principles of Foreign Aid, May 1964.
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0-1 Expressive of such sentiments on the part of many Afro-Asians, one
Kenyan delegate to the council meeting of the Afro-Asian Peoples Soli-
darity Organization in Algiers a year earlier reportedly complained,
"We are not Marxist-Leninists. Most of us have not read a line of
Das Kapital. What interest. do you expect us to show in your doctrinal
quarrels ? am tired of being asked what I think of the Soviet position
when I'm eating a sandwich and what I think of the Chinese argument
when I'm drinking my coffee. "
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In spite of an appearance of unanimity, however, an open but
unpublicized disagreement over a Chinese-sponsored resolution
reportedly delayed the termination of the Seminar for a full day, The
resolution, which called for the less developed countries to coordinate
their development efforts outside the UN and which virtually declared
that body useless by referring to it as a "tool of the United States
imperialists for promoting neocolonialism, " led to protracted haggling
between the delegates of Communist China and the South Vietnamese
Liberation Front on the one hand and the delegates from the USSR,
Algeria, and the United Arab Republic on the other. The six-point
plan of action approved by the Seminar declared only that the resolu-
tions of the Seminar have no connection with the UN or its specialized
agencies.
3. Conclusions
Although the significance of the Seminar does not appear to be
great, the final declaration reflects Chinese aims in the less developed
countries and represents the most extreme measures advanced thus
far in Chinese efforts to build up a "poor man's association" arrayed
against the advanced nations. Perhaps as a consequence, Peiping's
propaganda media have given full coverage to the conference in contrast
to the minimal publicity given the Seminar by the USSR, which did not
even publish the speech of the chief Soviet delegate.
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Sources:
FBIS. Daily Report (Middle
East and Africa), 24 Feb 65.
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Ibid. ,
26 Feb 65.
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1 Mar 65.
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2 Mar 6 5.
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3 Mar 65.
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4 Mar 65.
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State,
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Algiers. T-1986, 25
T-13, 4 Mar 65. C.
Feb 65.
Ibid. ,
T-2016, 2 Mar 65. OFF USE.
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State.,
Alg c.rs. Airgram A-366, 4 Mar
Ibid. ,
A-364, 4 Mar 65. OFF USE.
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FBIS.
Survey of Communist Bloc Broadcasts, 4 Mar 65.
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