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Ivory Coast
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Relations between Washington and Abidjan were cordial
if less
intimate than the ties with Paris. Through the mid-1980s,
Côte
d'Ivoire was Africa's most loyal supporter of the United
States in
the United Nations General Assembly. It supported the
larger United
States agenda on Chad, the Western Sahara, southern
Africa, and
Israel. The government strongly approved of moves by the
United
States against Libyan head of state Qadhaafi, especially
in light
of rumors that Libyans in Burkina Faso were recruiting and
training
agents to infiltrate Côte d'Ivoire. United States
secretary of
state George Schultz visited Abidjan in 1986 following
HouphouëtBoigny 's visit to Washington in 1983.
The United States continued to be Côte d'Ivoire's
leading
trading partner after France. Foreign policymakers in
Washington
continued to point to Côte d'Ivoire as an exemplar of
successful
capitalism, even as Côte d'Ivoire's debt mounted out of
control.
While enjoying a favorable image in the United States,
HouphouëtBoigny has indirectly criticized the United States by
attacking the
system of international trade, which the United States
supported
unequivocally, but which Houphouët-Boigny claimed was
responsible
for his country's economic ills.
Data as of November 1988
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