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Leopold II's International Association of the Congo, …

Years: 1876 - 1887

Leopold II's International Association of the Congo, which has already adopted its own flag, gains the separate recognition as an independent entity by thirteen powers, following the example set by the United States, at the Conference of Berlin, held in 1884-85 to settle disputes among the European nations and in essence to partition Africa among them.

Shortly afterward the association becomes the Congo Free State.

By the General Act of Berlin, signed at the conclusion of the conference in 1885, the powers also agree that activities in the Congo Basin should be governed by certain principles, including freedom of trade and navigation, neutrality in the event of war, suppression of the slave traffic, and improvement of the condition of the indigenous population.

The conference recognizes Leopold II as sovereign of the new state.

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