CONSIDERING the under-developed state of the African ecotomies which is a result of the colonial system and foreign domination; CONSIDERING the tendency of the colonialist countries to substitute economic for political domination and thus rob the newly-won inde pendence of African States of its true content; CONSIDERING also the departmentalisation and lack of harmony existing in the African economies and the inadequacy of technical cadres and finance; CONSIDERING that economic growth and development constitute the surest puarantees of the freedom of the African Continent; CONSIDERING that foreign powers sometimes use their economic aid a5 a means of endeavouring to divide the African territories and isolate the Independent States from territories that are still under colonial rule; AFFIRMS that independence js 9 pre-requisite to all economic development DECLARES that the Peoples of Africa are determined to work for the economic development and liberation of Africa, for the benefit and onder the control of the masses, RECOMMENDS to the Independent African States ; (rt) The intensification of their efforts to wrest
their respective countries from economic de-