UN General Assembly
1961

38. I should now like to refer to the international problems which are of particular concern to my country. First, however, I shall venture to say a few words concerning the decisions with regard to foreign policy which the twelve States of the Brazzaville Group took at the Tananarive Conference. 39. As I said just now, these decisions were the culmination of a development which has brought us, without the surrender of any part of our sovereignty, into increasingly close co-operation, first in the economic field and then within the larger perspective of the execution of a common foreign policy. 40. It was for this purpose that the African and Malagasy Union, whose charter has just been adopted by our Heads of State, was set up. What is the goal of this organization? I can best reply by quoting article 2 of this charter: