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Côte d'Ivoire–Soviet relations were the bilateral relations between Côte d'Ivoire and Soviet Union. Overall, the Ivorian-Soviet relations were sporadic and frosty as the Ivorian president Félix Houphouët-Boigny mistrusted the Soviet Union and had a negative view of the Soviet role in Africa.〔 ==1967–1969== The Soviet Union had declared its recognition of the independence of Côte d'Ivoire and offered the new state diplomatic relations in a telegram issued on August 6, 1960 (one day before independence of Côte d'Ivoire was declared).〔 The Soviet Union had begun to import cocoa beans from Côte d'Ivoire in 1959, but this trade was discontinued in 1961.〔Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''(Africa and the Communist World )''. Stanford, Calif: Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace by Stanford University Press, 1963. p. 73〕 However, in the early phase of Ivorian independence Soviet analysts classified the Ivorian government as 'reactionary'.〔Brzezinski, Zbigniew. ''(Africa and the Communist World )''. Stanford, Calif: Published for the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace by Stanford University Press, 1963. p. 14〕 By the mid-1960s, there was a shift in Soviet attitudes towards Côte d'Ivoire. The new Soviet ambition to seek development of contacts with Côte d'Ivoire could be seen as part of a wider strategy, directed towards enhancing contacts to regionally important moderate states in the Third World (another example in West Africa was Nigeria).〔Katz, Mark N. ''(The USSR and Marxist Revolutions in the Third World )''. Woodrow Wilson Center series. (D.C. ): Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1990. p. 33〕 Another factor that hampered the development of Ivorian-Soviet links was the fact that Soviet Union had close links with Guinea, ruled by Houphouët-Boigny's adversary Ahmed Sékou Touré. Guinea was accused of fomenting opposition inside Côte d'Ivoire, and there were suspicions that the Soviet Union had given its support to these activities. The Soviet-Guinean cooperation was however broken off.〔Meyer, Frank S. ''(The African Nettle: Dilemmas of an Emerging Continent )''. Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1970. p. 36〕 A mutual agreement to establish diplomatic relations between Côte d'Ivoire and the Soviet Union was announced on January 23, 1967.〔 In November the same year the first Soviet ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Sergey Petrov, was appointed.〔http://whp057.narod.ru/rossi-m8.htm〕 On May 30, 1969, Côte d'Ivoire declared that it severed the relations with the Soviet Union, as allegations were directed that Petrov had given direct support to a 1968 protest at the National University of Côte d'Ivoire.〔〔Ginsburgs, George, and Robert M. Slusser. ''(A Calendar of Soviet Treaties, 1958–1973 ). Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands: Sijthoff & Noordhoff, 1981. p. 836〕〔New York Times. ''(Soviet Ties With Ivory Coast )''〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ivory Coast–Soviet Union relations」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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