Commission de l'Océan India
The Commission de l'Océan India (German unofficial: Commission of the Indian Ocean , English Indian Ocean Commission ) is an intergovernmental alliance of some East African countries bordering the Indian Ocean for the purpose of political and economic cooperation.
In view of the decline of the Joint African-Malagasy-Mauritian States Organization (OCAM), the island state of Mauritius has been trying again since 1982 to intensify cooperation with its neighbors Madagascar (left OCAM in 1974) and Seychelles (left OCAM in 1978), since 1984 Various agreements on trade, fisheries, transport and oil exploration were agreed. In 1985 the Comoros and Réunion joined, so France is also an indirect participant via Réunion . The Maldives have observer status.
All participants are former French colonies , so the official lingua franca is French .
literature
- Dieter Nohlen (Ed.): Handbook of the Third World , Volume 5 - East Africa and South Africa, page 539.Bonn 1993
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foreign Policy , Country Information Madagascar, Federal Foreign Office, November 2011, accessed on March 4, 2012.
- ↑ Domdey, Karl-Heinz: Today's world economy as an opportunity and risk for Eastern European countries during the transition to a market economy , in: The transformation of the Eastern European countries into a market economy, LIT Verlag Münster, 1992, p. 100.
- ↑ Baumert, Andreas: Madagascar - Failed Mediation , afrika süd, No. 3, May / June 2011