Union of Central African States

The Union of Central African States ( French : Union des États d'Afrique centrale / UEAC ) was an economic and political union of the Central African states of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1972 to 1997 ) agreed on April 2, 1968 in Fort Lamy (today: N'Djamena) (Chad) Zaire ), Chad and Central African Republic .

Chad and the Central African Republic had left the Central African Customs and Economic Union (French: Union Douanière et Economique de l'Afrique Centrale / UDEAC ) formed in 1966 to establish their own customs union. The Union's chairman was the Congolese President Mobutu Sese Seko , the headquarters were to be located in Bangui , Central Africa , and the secretariat in Fort Lamy , Chad.

The union was never realized and consisted largely only of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, since in December 1968 the Central African Republic then also left Chad. In 1981 the UEAC disappeared without having achieved any tangible success.

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• Gustav Fochler-Hauke (Ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1969 , page 201f. Frankfurt / Main 1968
• Gustav Fochler-Hauke (Ed.): Der Fischer Weltalmanach 1971 , page 201. Frankfurt / Main 1970
• Spiegel Online 20/1968 of May 13, 1968: A little politics
• Thea Büttner (Ed.): Africa - history from the beginnings to the present , part IV, Africa from the collapse of the imperialist colonial system to the present. Pahl-Rugenstein-Verlag Cologne 1985