UN General Assembly
1982

proposed to the other components the Kano-1 meeting in order to widen the power base by including all people of Chad who would participate in genuine reconciliation. In spite of the Kano agreements, which called on all neighboring States not to interfere in the internal affairs of Chad, certain Powers, sensing that they were losing ground on the Chad political chessboard, hastily formed armed factions along ethnic lines and that would serve their own interests. Unfortunately, at the Kano-11 meeting we failed in our patriotic attempt to remove some of our brothers from external domination; thus we were composed of H political-military factions when we met in Lagos in August 1979. In spite of our conviction about the anti-national character of certain political-military factions, we nevertheless agreed to sign the Lagos agreement. That agreement reiterated the call to all neighboring States not to interfere in Chad's internal affairs. An important point in that agreement was the establishment of a consensus Government, whose term of office was set as 18 months, with