Algiers hosted the 1973 conference that coordinated the oil weapon before the Ramadan War.

Evidence

It was in Algiers that the mammoth Non-Aligned Conference took place in September 1973, probably the most significant congress of the Third World since the Bandung Conference of 1955 which gave the F.L.N. its first recognition in the outer world. It was also in Algiers in September of 1973 that, under Boumedienne’s guiding influence, the diplomatic and political dispositions against Israel, as well as the oil weapon, were co-ordinated, providing the essential prelude to the “Ramadan War” of the following month. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1680

Categorization

• XREF: Traces Algerian decolonization’s ripple outward into Third World and Middle East geopolitics — a permutation of the war’s legacy beyond Algeria.