UN General Assembly
1962

72. Although it is essential for countries to complement each other economically, this presupposes that the development of the associated countries should progress in, accordance with the needs and common interests of the peoples grouped together in the economic community. No plan which implicitly and a priori imposes a preconceived scheme and programme for the development of the associated countries can be viable, because it will provide no radical solution for problems relating to the nature of economic relations, and especially for the problems which confront integrated human communities. 73. The leaders of the European Economic Community do not seem to be aware of this concern, at any rate with regard to Africa, and make no secret of their desire to create a political community of the countries of Europe, with objectives, that are difficult to reconcile with the will for political independence and unity of Africa, which remains fiercely hostile to the Berlin Congress of 1885, which gave its blessing to the de facto and de jure partition of Africa.