 Complete the following phrase:  According to the US conservative magazine The National Interest, Jacques Foccart played an essential role in the negotiation of the Cooperation accords with the newly independent African states, former members of the French Community created in 1958. These accords involved the sectors of fice and economy, culture and education, and the military. There were initially eleven countries involved: Mauritania, Senegal, Cote dIvoire, Dahomey now Benin, Upper Volta now Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, Gabon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, and Madagascar. Togo and Cameroon, former UN Trust Territories, as well as, later on, Mali and the former Belgian territories Ruanda-Urundi, now Rwanda and Burundi, and Congo-Kinshasa, together with some of the 