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140. Circular Instruction From the Department of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Missions

fifteen newly independent states, including 14 from Africa, are expected to be admitted to the UN , i.e., 1. Belgian Congo, 2. Cameroon, 3. Cyprus, 4. Dahomey, 5. Gabon, 6. Ivory Coast, 7. Malagasy, 8. Mali Federation, 9. Mauritania, 10. Niger, 11. Nigeria, 12. Somaliland, 13. Togo, 14. Union of Central African Republics, and 15. Upper Volta. With this development the number of African members including the UAR but excluding the Union of South Africa would be twenty-three, making the African members the largest single geographic group in the UN , a position heretofore held by the Latin America…

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Source	Foreign Relations of the United States
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	US Department of State, Office of the Historian
Date	1960-06-23
Type	diplomatic document (FRUS)
Details	Foreign Relations of the United States, 1958–1960, United Nations and General International Matters, Volume II
Found at	https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v02/d140
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Record ID	`frus:frus1958-60v02/d140`

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140. Circular Instruction From the Department of State to Certain Diplomatic and Consular Missions. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1960. Vero Archive, record frus:frus1958-60v02/d140.