Foreign policy of the Mobutu Sese Seko administration

Mobutu Sese Seko and U.S. President Richard Nixon in Washington, D.C., 1973.

Mobutu Sese Seko's foreign policy emphasized his alliance with the United States and the Western world while supposedly maintaining a non-aligned position in international affairs.[1] Mobutu ruled the Republic of the Congo and then Zaire as president for 32 years, from 1965 to 1997.