Resolution on So-Calles French Somaliland (Djibouti)

CM/Res. 431 (XXV)

RESOLUTION ON SO-CALLED FRENCH SOMALILAND (DJIBOUTI)

The 25^th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, held in Kampala, Uganda from 18 to 25 July, 1975,

Having noted the Administrative Secretary-General’s Report on the situation prevailing in the So-called French Somaliland (Djibouti);

Having heard the representative of the African People’s league for Independence with the agreement of the two Movements FLCS and MLD;

Reiterating all its previous stand on the territory;

Congratulating the two countries contiguous to the So-called French Somaliland (Djibouti) for the respective declarations made in respect of the total independence and their avowed non-involvement in the internal affairs of the territory and calls upon them to renounce any claims they might have to the territory;

Noting that repression constitutes the sole means used by the French authorities to thwart the independence aspirations of the people in So-called French Somaliland;

1. Denounces the obstinacy and arrogance of the French Government with regard to the demand for independence by the people of the So-called French Somaliland (Djibouti);

2. Considers the situation in So-called French Somaliland (Djibouti) as a serious and dangerous situation endangering peace in the area;

3. Stresses the need for the people of this territory to step up their struggle and to take up armed struggle to last of the French colonial yoke;

4. Demands the withdrawal of French and other troops from the territory;