<span> (1) the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of or the wars between European powers; (2) the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere; (3) the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization; and (4) any attempt by a European power to oppress or control any nation in the Western Hemisphere would be viewed as a hostile act against the United States.</span>
Answer: B) African countries were not invited nor welcomed to this meeting.
All of the 14 participants of the Berlin Conference were European, with the exception of the Ottoman Empire which, even thou it controlled some territories in northern Africa, they were autonomous territories.
Besides that fact, there was no participation by any African country, since the conference´s goal was to regulate European colonialism and trade throughout Africa.
