125 Asia-Pacific Socialist Organization(APSO) The first conference of this second attempt to establish a regional organization of the Socialist International in Asia and the Pacific was held in Sydney, Australia, in February 1981. The second conference was held in Kuala Lumpur in 1985, but also this conference had no decisive effect on further co-operation. In 1988 the Australian and New Zealand Labour Parties founded a new ’Association of South Pacific Progressive Parties’. After the SI Congress 1996 in New York, it was decided to regroup and the’ Socialist International Asia-Pacific Committee’ was founded. There are no known archival collections for the APSO. Periodicals APSO Newsletter, vol. 1, 1985 no. 1, n.pl.[T his is the only number found.] ABA L'Interafricaine Socialiste et Democratique/Socialist Interafrican The organization was established in February 1981 on the initiative of Habib Bourguiba and Léopold Sedar Senghor by Social-Democratic/Socialist parties from Djibouti, Gambia, Ghana, Mauritius, Morocco, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan and Tunis while several other parties were present as observers. The General Council of Socialist Inter-African held several meetings but no publications have been found. The work of the SIA seems to be continued in the SI Africa Committee. No archival holdings are known. 1980­1980 Comité preparatoire de l’Interafricaine Socialiste, Tunis 13-14 Juillet 1980, Parti Socialiste Destourien, Tunis n.d., 20 p. BDIC 1981 Congrès Constitutif de l'Interafricaine Socialiste, Tunis 26-27-28 février 1981, Division des Relations Extérieures du Parti Socialiste Destourien, Tunis[1981], 62 p. FES, IISG Constitutive Congress of the Socialist Inter-African. Published by the Department of foreign relations of the Destourian Socialist Party- Tunis, Tunis(1981), 55 p. ABA, IISG 1986 Troisième Congrès/Third Congress Interafricaine Socialiste/Socialist Interafrican[Rabat 7­9 April 1986], Publication of the General Secretariat, n.pl. n.d., 122 p. FES Periodicals: Bulletin d'Information/Information bulletin. Interafricaine Socialiste/Socialist Interafrican, Tunis, no. 1-, 1981­Probably both an English and a French edition were published beginning in 1981, only no. 2 of the English edition has been found. ABA