UN General Assembly
1964

73. I should not fail to emphasize here the scope of this initiative taken by our Governments and the hopes placed by our brothers in Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia in a harmonized economic development of the countries of the Arab Maghreb. The Protocol signed at Tangier on 26 November 1964 has been rightly said to form the nucleus of the Maghreb Community. A permanent Advisory Committee had already been set up on 1 October last at Tunis to serve as a permanent liaison body and as a centre to provide the impetus and research for preparing future programmes in co-operation with ECA. The Tangier Protocol of 26 November delineates the fields in which the four countries will combine their efforts. These fields are very extensive indeed: co-ordination of development plans and of energy, trade and manpower policies, co-ordination of industrialization efforts, of transport and of telecommunications, cooperation in the field of tourism, financing of the expansion of tourism and of development in general. This is a very ambitious programme, but even modest achievements require great ambition.