UN General Assembly
1960

194. That possibility presupposes regional associations with a clearly defined and limited purpose- optimum rates of development and the most economic prices. These associations should be based on the purely objective considerations of geography, communications and mutually complementary resources. Such regional economic groups could then combine in a continental organization with a permanent secretariat. Consideration of such a project would, in my view, be most desirable. Morocco is willing to prepare, in collaboration with sister African nations, a plan to be submitted for discussion at a continental conference, which it would be glad to invite to Tangier in the spring of 1961. That conference would determine the form of regional and continental associations, the limits of their competence, the possibilities of specialization in joint planning and investment, and the organization of intra-African and foreign trade. Our conclusions would be of a practical nature, as practical measures are now imperative if we are to avoid unpleasant surprises in the future.