ABSTRACT
The foreign policy of a state is normally defined as that set of short- and middle-run objectives vis-a-vis the world polity that are seen as serving the "interests" of the state. The primary foreign policy consideration for the Central African Republic is that, more than twenty-five years after independence, the country is still identified as part of "former French" Africa. In general, one can identify two areas of foreign policy activity for the Central African Republic, the global and the African. Like many African nations in the early 1960s, the Central African Republic established relations with Israel. In January 1980 the Dacko government broke relations with Libya, accusing it of interfering in the internal affairs of the Central African Republic. The only other African country of major importance to the Central African Republic's foreign policy has been the Republic of South Africa. The Central African Republic has been a member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies since 1960.
