R E S O L U T I O N S OF THE 48 TH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS AS ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

ORGANIZATION OF

ORGANISATION DE L’UNITE

AFRICAN UNITY

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COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

CM/Res.1147 – 1176

(XLVIII)

FORTY-EIGHTH ORDINARY SESSION

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA

19 – 23 MAY, 1988

R E S O L U T I O N S

OF THE 48

ORDINARY SESSION

OF THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

AS ADOPTED BY

THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

No.

Page

CM/Res.1147 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Namibia

1 - 4

CM/Res.1148 (XLVIII)

Resolution on South Africa

1 – 5

CM/Res.1149 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Southern Africa

1 – 4

CM/Res.1150 (XLVIII)

Resolution on International

Conferences on the Plight of

Refugees, Returnees and Displaced

Persons in Southern Africa

1 – 2

CM/Res.1151 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Preparation of

the Third Special Session of the

United Nations General Assembly on

Disarmament

1 – 2

CM/Res.1152 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Question of the

Comorian Island of Mayotte

1 –

CM/Res.1153 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Dumping of Nuclear

and Industrial Wastes in Africa

1 – 3

CM/Res.1154 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Question of

Palestine

1 - 4

CM/Res.1155 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Situation in

the Middle East

1 - 5

No.

Page

CM/Res.1156 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Solidarity with

Tunisia following the Israeli

Aggression against its Sovereignty

and Territorial Integrity

CM/Res.1157 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Afro-Arab Co-operation

1 – 3

CM/Res.1158 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Current International

Development

1 – 2

CM/Res.1159 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the 25

Anniversary

of the OAU

CM/Res.1160 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Candidature

of Mr. Mohammed Ennaceur for the post

of ILO Director-General

1 – 2

CM/Res.1161 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Reconstitution of

Members of the Policy Committee of

the Special Emergency Assistance

Fund for Drought and Famine in Africa 1 – 2

CM/Res.1162 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Mid-Term Review of the

Implementation of the UN Programme

of Action for African Economic

Recovery and Development

1 – 3

CM/Res.1163 (XLVIII)

Resolution on African Child Survival

and Universal Immunization in Africa

1 – 4

No.

Page

CM/Res.1164 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Programme of

Essential Medicine for Children and

their Mothers

1 – 2

CM/Res.1165 (XLVIII)

Resolution on AIDS Prevention in

Africa

1 – 2

CM/Res.1166 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Africa and the World

Culture Development Decade

1 –

CM/Res.1167 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Pan-African

Linguistic Association

1 – 2

CM/Res.1168 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Proceedings of the

Eleventh Ordinary Session of the

OAU Labour Commission

1 – 2

CM/Res.1169 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Development of

Maritime Transport in Africa

1 –

CM/Res.1170 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Multinational

Civil Aviation Training Centre for

Addis Ababa

1 – 2

CM/Res.1171 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Programme of the

International Hydrogeological Map

of Africa

1 – 2

CM/Res.1172 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Development of

Telecommunications in Africa

1 – 3

No.

Page

CM/Res.1173 (XLVIII)

Resolution on Locust Control in

Africa

1 – 3

CM/Res.1174 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Third Replenish-

ment of IFAD’s Resources

1 – 2

CM/Res.1175 (XLVIII)

Resolution on the Financial Crisis

Facing the Pan African Agency

CM/Res.1147 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON NAMIBIA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having heard the Representative of the South West Africa People’s Organization

and having examined the reports of the Liberation Committee and of the

Secretary-General,

Deeply concerned about the continued illegal occupation of Namibia by racist

Pretoria in contravention of the will and aspirations of the people of the country

and of the international public opinion,

Noting with indignation the latest Pretoria’s scheme that seek to impose tribal

elections along with bogus constitution formation on the Namibian people

against their will and in contravention of OAU and UN Resolutions and

decisions,

Gravely concerned about news-black-out and information muzzling by racist

South Africa,

Noting further racist Pretoria’s constant crackdown on SWAPO activists,

unions, students, organizations and church officials,

Outraged by Pretoria’s repressive and draconian illegal legislations such as, state

of emergency, martial law, curfew and district security act,

Remembering with sadness that 1988 marks the Tenth Anniversary of the brutal

massacre carried out, at Cassinga, on 4 May, 1978 by the facists troops of the

racist Pretoria regime, resulting in the killing and wounding of more than 1,000

Namibian men, women and children,

Furthermore gravely concerned about continued detentions without trial,

arrests, disappearances, murder, rape and destruction of properties by South

Africa’s occupation security forces in Namibia,

Cognizant of the fact that Resolution 435/1978 continue to provide the basis for

international consensus on the independence for Namibia,

Taking note of the fact that a new climate for international co-operation as

witnessed by the rapprochement

between USSR and USA and subsequent

quatripartite talks on the situation in the South Western African Region,

Reaffirming that the armed struggle waged by SWAPO remains the most

effective means of bringing about Namibia’s independence,

Recalling all the previous resolutions and decisions on Namibia adopted by the

Assembly of Heads of State and Government and the Council of Ministers

including the Arusha Plan of Action and the Solidarity Fund in support of

SWAPO in the liberation struggle:

VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS the racist regime of South Africa for its

continued illegal occupation, military build-up, dilatory tactics and its

stubborn refusal of sign and observe a ceasefire with SWAPO, to pave the

way towards the speedy implementation of Security Council Resolution

435/1978;

STRONGLY CONDEMNS Pretoria’s latest schemes of imposing tribal

elections on the Namibian people against their will and the decisions of

the United Nations;

DEPLORES Pretoria’ muzzling and restrictions of the news media in

Namibia;

FURTHER CONDEMNS Pretoria’s crackdown on mass Organizations,

the trade unions, student organizations and church leaders, as well as

racist Pretoria’s repressive and draconian legislations and proclamations

which seek to deny Namibians their basic human rights;

DEMANDS immediate release of all political prisoners and detainees and

an end to murder and commission of atrocities by Pretoria’s fascist and

para-military gangs;

REITERATES the continued validity of Resolution 435/1978 as the legal

base for international consensus on the independence for Namibia;

FURTHERMORE, REITERATES the continued legal and direct

responsibility of the United Nations over Namibia until the achievement

of genuine independence;

VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS the policy of extermination of newly born

male infants being pursued by the racist Pretoria regime;

CALLS UPON Member Countries of the OAU to increase financial,

material, military and political support to SWAPO to enable it to

intensify the armed struggle in Namibia in order to accelerate the demise

of the Pretoria regime’s occupation;

10.

(a)

COMMENDS the people’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN),

SWAPO’s military wing, for having advanced the armed struggle

to new heights and for the significant victories it has scored on the

battlefield against the vicious enemy, during the period under

review;

(b)

CALLS ON THE OAU Liberation Committee to continue to

undertake periodic consultations with SWAPO leadership in order

to appraise itself of progress at the war front and to assess the

material needs of PLAN combatants with the purpose of reporting

back such needs to the next Summit;

(c)

EXPRESSES FIRMLY the Organization’s unshakeable

commitment to the previous decisions and resolutions on Namibia

adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government, and

unswerving support for the Security Council Resolution 435/1978

CM/Res.1148 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON SOUTH AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having heard the representatives of the Liberation Movements and having

examined the reports of the Liberation Committee and the Secretary-General,

Gravely concerned about the stepping up by the Pretoria regime of acts of

aggression and destabilization against the neighboring states,

Deeply concerned with the deteriorating situation resulting from new restrictions

imposed on mass organizations, application of strict press censorship, including

the suspension of newspapers, continued detention of opponents of the illegal

minority racist regime, including children, and the daily killings carried out by

the armed forces and police of the regions,

Noting with concern that the continued State of Emergency and the stringent

press censorship in South Africa have imposed a veil of secrecy which facilitates

the unbridled use of the army, police and murder squads against the mass

democratic movement by the Pretoria regime,

Noting with indignation Pretoria’s clamp down on 18 mass organizations and

leading activists of the Mass Democratic Movement,

Noting further the impeding legislation designed to restrict foreign funding of

humanitarian and anti-apartheid organization inside the country,

Alarmed by the apartheid regime’s nefarious activities of deploying murder

squads in Africa, Europe and North America, for the purpose of eliminating its

opponents, as evidenced by the recent assassination of Ms. Dulcie September, the

ANC Representative in France,

Convinced the comprehensive and mandatory sanctions against the apartheid

regime remain the principal peaceful means towards the eradication of apartheid

and establishment of a non-racial democratic society in South Africa,

Conscious of the growing and important role being played by trade union

federations inside apartheid South Africa, particularly by COSATU and

NACTU,

Encouraged by the ever growing campaign waged by the Anti-Apartheid

movement worldwide in mobilizing the people to exert maximum pressure on

their respective governments, especially those in the United States, United

Kingdom, France and the Federal Republic of Germany, in order to compel

them to make common cause with the rest of the international community in

support of sanctions against racist South Africa,

Noting with concern the Pretoria regime’s latest maneuvers aimed at

perpetuating the status quo through the intended co-option of black puppets into

the apartheid structures,

Reaffirming the OAU’s conviction that only majority rule based on the principle

of universal adult suffering in a non-fragmented South Africa can lead to a just

and lasting solution in that country,

Outraged by the Pretoria regime’s continued design towards the judicial murder

of the Sharperville Six and over forty other South African patriots sentenced to

death for their part in the fight against apartheid:

VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS racist South Africa for the continued

detention, torture and killing of activists of the democratic movement, the

muzzling of the press as well as the recent clamp down on the 18 mass

organizations and leading activists committed to peaceful change;

DEMANDS the immediate lifting of the State of Emergency and the

removal of the restrictions imposed on the anti-apartheid organizations

and individuals;

CALLS UPON the international community to relentlessly sustain its

efforts to save the lives of the Sharperville Six and more than forty other

patriots sentenced to death in South Africa;

DEPLORES the use of the veto by the US and UK against resolutions

demanding imposition of comprehensive mandatory sanctions;

VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS racist South Africa for the cold blooded

murder of Ms. Dulcie September, the Chief Representative of the ANC in

France as well as the deployment, by the regime, of hit squads in Africa,

Europe, North America and throughout the world for the purpose of

eliminating leaders of the National Liberation Movement;

STRONGLY URGES the international community to intensify the

campaign for the immediate and unconditional release of all political

prisoners and detainees including Nelson Mandela and to compel the

apartheid regime to accord prisoner of war status to all captured freedom

fighters in accordance with the Geneva Convention and its relevant

Protocols;

CALLS ON the international media based in South Africa to defy the

regime’s restrictions on the media and in accordance with their

professional ethics, to reflect accurately the state of affairs prevailing in

the country;

REITERATES the call for the imposition of comprehensive and

mandatory sanctions against the apartheid regime, by the UN Security

Council in accordance with Chapter Seven of the United Nations Charter;

COMMENDS the anti apartheid movement in the countries whose

governments are opposed to sanctions for their tireless efforts in

sustaining the sanctions campaign, especially in the United States, where

the Free South Africa Movement has brought about a powerful pro-

sanctions constituency, resulting in the ever growing movement for a total

isolation of racist South Africa;

10.

MANDATES the Secretary-General to ensure the immediate contact with

the United States Law makers in order to solicit their support towards the

adoption, in June 1988, of the Sanction Bill B300;

11.

REQUESTS the Current Chairman, the Foreign Minister and the

Secretary-General, to periodically convey Africa’s concern and demands

to all those countries that continue to collaborate with racist South

Africa;

12.

DECIDES to work towards the convening of the meeting of the UN

Security Council for the purpose of examining the totality of racist South

Africa’s reprehensible policies and acts of state terrorism in South Africa,

Namibia and the region in order to undertake appropriate actions

including comprehensive and mandatory sanctions against the apartheid

regime;

13.

INSTRUCTS the African Group at the Unite Nations to work towards the

convening of a meeting of the UN Security Council and to ensure its

success;

14.

RESOLVES to sustain the armed struggle against the Pretoria regime

and its occupational forces in Namibia, and CALLS UPON the National

Liberation Movements to intensify their actions against the regime and its

institutions of oppression and repression;

15.

FURTHER CALLS for increased diplomatic, material and financial

support to National Liberation Movements recognized by the OAU;

16.

COMMENDS all the leaders and activists of the mass democratic

movement in South Africa, especially those religious leaders who recently

led a march to parliament in total defiance of the Pretoria regime’s

threats and blackmail designed to secure their acquiescence;

17.

SUPPORTS the decision by the Congress of South Africa Trade Union

(COSATU) calling for “3 days of national action” to protest the regime’s

restrictions on the labour and democratic movement.

CM/Res.1149 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON SOUTHERN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Aware that this is the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Organization of African

Unity,

Noting also that this is the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Co-ordinating

Committee for the Liberation of Africa,

Further Noting the Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation in Southern

Africa, and of the Fiftieth Ordinary Session of the OAU Co-ordination

Committee for the Liberation of Africa,

Further taking note of the report of the Fiftieth Session of the Co-ordinating

Committee for the Liberation of Africa, on arrears to the Special Fund,

Recalling the provisions of Article III of the Charter of the Organization of

African Unity which underlines the absolute dedication of the Member States to

the total emancipation of the African territories which are still dependent,

Determined to eradicate apartheid and colonialism in South Africa and in

Namibia,

Taking note of summary report of the OAU Ministerial Mission to Washington

D.C. on sensitizing the Congress of the United States on American involvement

in the internal affairs of the People’s Republic of Angola,

Bearing in mind the on-going negotiations between the People’s Republic of

Angola, the United States, South Africa and Cuba, with the view to finding a

solution to the problems of Southern Africa in general and to implement in

particular, Resolution 435 (1978) on the Independence of Namibia, ensuring the

withdrawal of South African troops from parts of Southern Angola and putting

an end to the military, logistic and financial support given by the United States to

the UNITA armed bandits in the pay of Pretoria,

Having taken note of the report of the State Department of the United States of

America on the massacre of about 100,000 people in Mozambique by the armed

bandits in the pay of the racist South Africa:

PAYS TRIBUTE to the Frontline States and neighboring countries for

the great sacrifices they are making for the liberation of Namibia and

South Africa, in spite of the impact of critical economic situation in that

region;

CONGRATULATES the Co-ordinating Committee for the Liberation of

Africa for its persistent, determined and constructive leadership in the

liberation of the African continent;

THANKS all the Executive Secretaries of the Liberation Committee for

their dedication to service and for their contributory efforts in the

successful armed struggle against colonialism and white racist rule in

Africa;

URGES the Member States in arrears to the Special Fund of the

Liberation Committee to clear their arrears in two years as a matter of

urgency, to enable the National Liberation Movements to intensify the

armed struggle in Namibia and South Africa;

REAFFIRMS its total solidarity with the Frontline States and

neighboring countries in their efforts to end their economic dependence

on South Africa and to support National Liberation Movements;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the OAU to contact the African

Group at the UN with a view to considering the possibility of holding a

meeting of the Security Council at Ministerial level to discuss the situation

in Southern Africa;

FURTHER CALLS UPON the United Nations Security Council to rise up

to its responsibilities in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 7 of the

United Nations Charter and impose comprehensive and mandatory

economic sanctions;

COMMENDS the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid

and the Council for Namibia for their persistent efforts to respectively

eradicate apartheid in South Africa and the Pretoria regime’s illegal

occupation of Namibia; and appeals to them to intensify their efforts;

APPEALS to Member States to increase their assistance to the Frontline

States and neighboring countries by contributing particularly to the

African Fund set up by the Non-Aligned Movement;

10.

INVITES Member States to follow the example of Tanzania and

Zimbabwe and enter into consultation on a bilateral basis with the

Frontline States to determine the nature of the Security assistance they

require to strengthen their defence capabilities;

11.

FURTHER INVITES the Member States that have not created Anti-

Apartheid Organizations to do so; and CALLS UPON the Secretary-

General to convene a meeting of these Organizations as soon as possible;

12.

ENDORSES the initiatives being undertaken by the Governments of the

People’s Republic of Angola and Mozambique for peace and security in

Southern Africa;

13.

CALLS UPON the Reagan Administration to use its influence with the

Pretoria regime to ensure the speedy implementation of United Nations

Security Council Resolutions 602 of 1987, and 435 of 1978;

14.

EXPRESSES its appreciation of the useful and timely mission of the

Ministerial delegation to Washington D.C. and ENDORSES fully its

recommendation for an OAU Office in Washington D.C. to better

articulate the issues of concern to Africa, co-ordinate the activities of the

African Group, and maintain full contact with the Anti-Apartheid

Movement and “Friends of Africa”, in the United States; (Reservation:

Zimbabwe)

15.

CALLS UPON the Secretary-General to undertake a study on the

objective duties and responsibilities of an OAU Office in Washington D.C.

and to submit it with the financial implications to the next session of the

Council of Ministers;

16.

WELCOMES the report by the United States Department of State on the

surrogate bandits of the Pretoria regime, and appeals to the United States

Government to render needed security assistance to the People’s Republic

of Mozambique, to able it better defend the population against these

bandits;

17.

REAFFIRMS its determination to eradicate colonialism and apartheid

and CALLS UPON the international community to continue to increase

its assistance to the struggle, for peace and security in Southern Africa,

freedom, independence and racial equality in Namibia and South Africa.

CM/Res.1150 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE PLIGHT OF

REFUGEES, RETURNEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS IN SOUTHERN

AFRICA OSLO, NORWAY – 22 – 24 AUGUST, 1988

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Recalling its Resolution CM/Res.1040 (ZLIV) on the call for the convening of an

International Conference on the Plight of Refugees, Returnees and Displaced

Persons provoked by aggression and destabilization of the racist Pretoria in

Southern Africa,

Noting with satisfaction the Progress Report of the Secretary-General on the

preparations for the said International Conference and the offer by the

Government of the Kingdom of Norway to host the Conference in Oslo, from 22

to 24 August, 1988,

Noting further the various contributions, financial, material and otherwise by

the Nordic countries and the collaborating organizations, namely, UN, UNHCR

and UNDP,

Constantly aware of the need for proper preparations for the Conference in

order to ensure the full participation and support of the international

community including the Member States of the Organization of African Unity:

TAKES NOTE of the Progress Report of the Secretary-General on the

preparations for the Conference and commends him for his efforts to this

end;

EXPRESSES its gratitude and appreciation to the Government of

Norway for offering to host the said Conference in Oslo, Norway, from 22

to 24 August, 1988;

EXPRESSES FURTHER its thanks and appreciation to the Governments

of Norway and the other Nordic countries, (Finland, Denmark and

Sweden), the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the United Nations

High Commissioner for Refugees, and the Administrator of the United

Nations Development Programme for their financial and material support

for the preparatory activities of the said Conference;

CONDEMNS the Pretoria regime’s policy of destabilization and

aggression which has caused considerable suffering to the people of

Southern Africa;

URGES the Secretary-General and the Steering Committee to continue

with the preparations for the conference, especially with regard to the

sensitization campaign relating thereto, to ensure high-level attendance at

the Conference and active participation by OAU Member States and the

rest of the international community.

CM/Res.1151 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE PREPARATION OF THE THIRD SPECIAL

SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON

DISARMAMENT

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Recalling the Declaration and the Programme of Action on Disarmament,

Development and Security in Africa, adopted in Lome in August 1985 and

endorsed by the Twenty-third Ordinary Session of the OAU Assembly of Heads

of State and Government,

Recalling further that the Forty-fourth Ordinary Session of the Council had set

up an Ad-Hoc Committee of Fourteen (14) charged with the detailed study of the

Lome Declaration and Programme of Action,

Bearing in mind its Resolution CM/Res.1140 (XLXII) of 27 February 1988,

which called upon the Group of Experts of Member Countries of the Ad-Hoc

Committee of Fourteen (14) at the UN, to prepare a document reflecting the

views of African States on all issues to be considered during the Third UN

Special Session on Disarmament and to submit the said Document to the Forty-

eighth Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers for approval,

Having considered the document prepared by the Group of Experts:

ADOPTS the said Document and REQUESTS the General Secretariat to

submit it to the Extra-ordinary Meeting of the Co-ordinating Bureau of

the Non-Aligned Movement, scheduled to take place in Havana from 26 –

30 May 1988, and which was entrusted with the task of drafting a

document reflecting the movement for submission to the Third Special

Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Disarmament;

CM/Res.1152 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE QUESTION OF THE

COMORIAN ISLAND OF MAYOTTE

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report contained in Document CM/1493 (XLCIII),

Recalling the relevant resolutions of the OAU on the Question of the Comorian

Island of Mayotte in particular Resolution CM/Res.1100 (XLVI),

Further recalling the relevant resolutions and decisions of the UNO, Non-

Aligned Movement, Organization of the Islamic Conference and the League of

Arab States,

Finally recalling the programme of action recommended by the OAU Ad-Hoc

Committee of Seven, contained in Document Committee 7/Mayotte/Rec. 1 – 9

(11) adopted at Moroni in November 1981,

Reiterating the legitimacy of the claims of the Comorian Government with

regard to the reintegration of the Comorian Island of Mayotte into the Federal

and Islamic Republic of the Comoros,

Aware of the insecurity prevailing in the region owing to the presence in and

control of the Comorian Island of Mayotte by France:

EXPRESSES its concern about the intransigence of the French

Government with respect to the legitimate claims of the Comorian

Government and the relevant resolutions of the OAU, UNO, Organization

of the Islamic Conference, the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries and

the League of Arab States;

REAFFIRMS the sovereignty of the Federal and Islamic Republic of the

Comoros over the Comorian Island of Mayotte;

Further REAFFIRMS its solidarity with the Comorian people in their

determination to regain their political unity and defend their national

sovereignty and territorial integrity;

TAKEN NOTE of the report contained in Document CM/1493 (XLXIII);

CALLS UPON all Member States of the OAU to take all possible steps

individually and collectively to inform France and international public

opinion about the question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte in order to

induce the French Government to put an end to its illegal occupation of

this island;

APPEALS to all the Member States of the OAU and the international

community to condemn and reject outright any form of consultation

which might be organized by France in the Comorian Island of Mayotte

on the legal international status of the Island since the referendum for

self-determination held on 22 December 1974 remains the only valid

consultation applicable to the Archipelago as a whole;

FURTHER APPEALS to all the Member States of the OAU and the

international community to condemn and reject any steps which could be

taken by France to make the Comorian Island of Mayotte take part in

activities which could distinguish it from the Federal and Islamic

Republic of the Comoros;

ENTRUSTS the OAU Ad-Hoc Committee of Seven on the Question of the

Comorian Island of Mayotte and the OAU General Secretariat to resume

the dialogue with the French authorities to pursue efforts to return the

Comorian Island of Mayotte to the Federal and Islamic Republic o the

Comoros as soon as possible;

REQUESTS that the Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte

remains on the agenda of all meetings of the OAU, UNO, Movement of

CM/Res.1153 (XLVIII)

DUMPING OF NUCLEAR AND INDUSTRIAL WASTES

IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Aware of the growing practice of dumping nuclear and industrial wastes in

African countries by transnational corporations and other enterprises from

industrialized countries, which they cannot dispose of within their territories,

Gravely concerned about the growing tendency of some African countries to

conclude agreements or arrangements with such corporations and enterprises

which facilitate the dumping of nuclear and industrial wastes in their territorial

boundaries,

Bearing in mind the harmful effects of radiation from nuclear and other

hazardous industrial wastes to human and marine life as well as to the

ecosystems on which they depend for their existence:

DECLARES that the dumping of nuclear and industrial wastes in Africa

is a crime against Africa and the African people;

CONDEMNS all transnational corporations and enterprises involved in

the introduction, in any form, of nuclear and industrial wastes in Africa;

and DEMANDS that they clean up the areas that have already been

contaminated by them;

CALLS UPON African countries which have concluded or are in the

process of concluding agreements or arrangements for dumping nuclear

and industrial wastes in their territories to put an end to these

transactions;

REQUESTS Member States of the OAU to carry out information

campaigns among their people about the danger of Nuclear and

Industrial Wastes;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity

(OAU), in close collaboration with the Director-General of the

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Executive Secretary of

the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and other

concerned organizations, to assist African countries to establish

appropriate mechanisms for monitoring and control of the movement and

disposal of Nuclear and Industrial Wastes in Africa;

REQUESTS ALSO the Secretary-General of the Organization of African

Unity (OAU) to take appropriate steps to ensure the inscription of The

Dumping of Nuclear and Industrial Wastes in Africa as an item on the

Agenda of the Forty-third Session of the U.N. General Assembly;

REQUESTS FURTHER the Secretary-General of the Organization of

African Unity (OAU) to report to the Council of Ministers at its Fiftieth

Session, on the implementation of this resolution;

CALLS UPON Member States to adhere to the guidelines and principles

of Cairo on the dumping of dangerous wastes using ecologically rational

methods;

INVITES Member States to participate in the Working Group charged

with the drafting of the Convention on the Control of the Movement of

Dangerous Wastes across Borders.

CM/Res.1154 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the Question of

Palestine and contained in Document CM/1497 (XLVIII),

Recalling the Resolutions adopted by the previous sessions of the Council of

Ministers and Assembly of Heads of State and Government on the Question of

Palestine and the problems of the Middle East,

Guided by the principles and objectives of the Charter of the OAU and the

Charter of the UN and the joint struggle against Zionism and Racism in order to

attain freedom, independence and peace,

Further recalling all relevant resolutions of the United Nations and Non-Aligned

Movement on the Question of Palestine and the problem of the Middle East,

Noting the report of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise by the

Palestinian people of their inalienable rights,

Noting also the reports of the UN Secretary-General on the Question of Palestine

and his continuous efforts to realize a comprehensive just and lasting peace in

the Middle East,

Reaffirming the legitimacy of the struggle of the Palestinian people under the

leadership of the PLO, its sole legitimate representative in order to retrieve their

land and exercise their full national rights,

Following attentively and with deep concern the popular uprising of the

Palestinian people in the occupied territories to put an end to the Israeli

occupation and to regain their national and inalienable rights, their right to

repatriation, and the establishment of their independent Palestinian State with

Jerusalem as its Capital,

Noting with deep concern the Israeli organized State terrorism against the

Palestinian people and their leadership inside and outside the occupied

territories,

Noting further the alliance the Zionist regime of Israel and the APARTHEID

regime in South Africa aimed at maintaining a terrorist policy and liquidating

the Palestinians and the Arabs in the Arab and Palestinian occupied lands on one

hand, and the peoples of South Africa and Namibia on the other:

REAFFIRMS all the previous resolutions and recommendations adopted

by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government and the Council of

Ministers on the Question of Palestine;

FURTHER REITERATES:

the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to return to their

homeland and properties in Palestine from which they were

displaced;

the right of the Palestinian people to self determination without

any outside interference and the establishment of their

independent Sovereign Palestinian State on their homeland with

Jerusalem as its Capital;

its call for the immediate unconditional withdrawal of Israel from

all Palestinian occupied territories including Jerusalem, and calls

on the UN and more especially the Security Council, to take all the

necessary measures to put an end to Israeli occupation of the

Palestinian territories and extend the International Protection

through UN machinery, to the Palestinians in the occupied

territories as well as supervise operations during the transitional

period until the Palestinian people can fully exercise their

inalienable national rights;

EXPRESSES its unconditional support for the legitimate heroic popular

uprising of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories

and salutes all countries, organizations and individuals that condemned

the facist Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people and supported

the heroic uprising; also salutes the international mass media which

played an important role in unveiling Israel’s Zionist practices in the

Palestinian occupied territories;

STRONGLY CONDEMNS Israel the occupying power for its oppressive

racist policy of aggression against the Palestinians in the occupied

territories, as the continued occupation, confiscation of land and water

resources, deportation and illegal detentions constitute a flagrant

violation of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights and the Geneva

Convention of 12 August 1949 on the Protection of Civilians in times of

war;

INVITES Member States to supply all forms of assistance, as a matter of

urgency to the Palestine Liberation Organization to enable it to support

the uprising of the Palestinian people struggling in their occupied

territories;

STRONGLY CONDEMNS the Criminal Act by the Zionist State of Israel

in assassinating the Palestinian freedom fighter Khali Al Wazir (Abu

Jihad) in Tunisia, and considers this assassination as an act of State

terrorism committed against a sovereign State, member of the OAU and

an act of aggression and provocation threatening Peace and security;

*SUPPORTS the efforts for convening an International Conference for

Peace in the Middle East in accordance with the provisions of the relevant

resolutions of the UN General Assembly in particular No. 38/58/C of

13/12/83 and 41/430 of 13/12/86 with the Participation of the Permanent

Members of the UN Security Council and the parties concerned including

the PLO the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, as an

independent party, and on equal footing with the other parties;

WELCOMES the convening of the coming Extraordinary Arab Summit

meeting in Algeria and considers it a sound support to the Palestinian

people and their uprising in the occupied territories and an opportunity

to enhance the common Arab efforts towards the achievement of a just

and lasting peace in the Middle East;

CALLS for the implementation of the Council’s resolutions No, 605, 607,

608 on the situation in the occupied Palestinian territories;

10.

DEEPLY REGRET the continuation of US Policies of:

(a)

support to Israel in all fields, which enable the Zionist entity in the

continuation of its occupation of the Palestinian territories;

(b)

its decision to close down the PLO Mission in New York which is

considered a clear violation of the Treaty of the Premises signed in

1947 between the UN and the host country.

11.

CALLS ON the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity

to follow up on the developments of the Palestinian Question and submit a

report on them to the forthcoming Session of the OAU council of

Ministers.

Reservation by:

Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

CM/Res.1155 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General of the Organization of

African Unity on the Middle East as contained in Document CM/1496 (XLCIII),

Guided by the principles and purposes of the Charters of the OAU and the

United Nations, and by the common determination of the African and Arab

peoples to fight jointly to safeguard their freedom,

Recalling the successive resolutions adopted by previous sessions of the Assembly

of Heads of State and Government, and of the Council of Ministers of the OAU

on the situation in the Middle East;

Noting with deep concern that in spite of the many resolutions adopted by the

United Nations General Assembly, the Security Council and the Organization of

African Unity urging Israel to withdraw from Arab territories occupied since

1967, including Jerusalem, not only has Israel persistently refused to comply

with these resolutions but continued to pursue its expansionist and occupation

policy;

Reaffirming that violation of other countries’ space, waters, and lands by Israel

to be acts threatening peace and security,

Deploring the systematic obstruction by Israel of all efforts made towards

reaching a peaceful solution of the problem,

Noting with concern that the collusion between the Zionist regime of Israel and

the apartheid regime of South Africa is aimed at promoting the policy of

terrorism and liquidation of the Palestinians and Arabs in the occupied

territories on one hand and the majority of the black population of South Africa

and Namibia on the other,

Noting with deep concern the Israeli attempts to penetrate the African continent

through the United Nations International Organizations, such as the United

Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other Establishments:

REAFFIRMS all previous resolutions adopted by the Assembly of Heads

of State and Government and the Council of Ministers of the OAU and its

total and effective support for the Palestinian people under the dynamic

leadership of its sole and legitimate representative, the Palestine

Liberation Organization;

FURTHER REAFFIRMS its support for the Arab countries, victims of

Israeli aggression, and its support for the Palestinian people in their just

struggle to recover their usurped rights and their occupied territories;

STRONGLY CONDEMNS Israel, the occupying power, for not

complying with the provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 12

August 1949, on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War;

CONDEMNS VIGOROUSLY the establishment of settlements by Israel

in Palestine and other occupied territories and the Judaisation of the city

of Jerusalem and its proclamation as its capital;

MAKES AN URGENT APPEAL to the international community to exert

an effective pressure on Israel in all fields until it complies with the

principles of International Law and put an end to its occupation of

Palestinian and Arab territories;

REITERATES ITS REQUEST to the Security Council to take the

necessary measures to secure international protection by the Palestinian

people in the occupied territories until they are able to practice their

national rights;

STRONGLY CONDEMNS all agreements concluded separately and all

commitments made individually which constitute a flagrant violation of

the rights of the Palestinian people and which hinder the fulfillment of

their aspirations;

*STRONGLY SUPPORTS the convening of an International Conference

on the Situation in the Middle East under the auspices of the United

Nations with the participation of the Permanent Members of the Security

Council as well as all the concerned parties including the Palestine

Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the

Palestinian people as an independent party on equal footing with other

parties;

STRONGLY COMMENDS the militant role of the Lebanese people in

confronting Israeli aggressions, and condemns the aggression perpetrated

against Lebanon and the continued occupation of its territories;

10.

CONSIDERS null and void any measures taken by Israel in the occupied

Arab territories, aimed at exploiting their resources and REQUESTS all

States, International Organizations and investment agencies not to

recognize Israel’s authority over these territories and not to co-operate

with it, in any form whatsoever in its illegal exploitation of these

resources;

11.

STRONGLY CONDEMNS the Zionist Israeli criminal act of

assassinating freedom fighter Khalil AL WAZIR ABOU JIHAD, in

Tunisia and CONSIDERS this to be an act of terrorism and flagrant

violation of the International Law against an independent sovereign state

and member of the OAU and an act of provocation threatening peace and

security;

12.

REJECTS all attempts and initiatives that ignore the inalienable rights of

the Palestinian people, and which aims at aborting the Palestinian

Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate representative of the

Palestinian people;

Reservation by:

Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

13.

*RECOMMENDS that Member States renew their firm determination

not to establish or re-establish diplomatic ties with Israel, a natural and

unconditional accomplice of racist South Africa;

14.

REQUEST that the Member reject the continuous Israeli attempts to

penetrate the African continent through the United Nations Development

Programme;

15.

STRONGLY CONDEMNS the alliance between racist South African

regime, and Israel and their co-operation in atomic field which threaten

security and peace in Africa and the Middle East, and their similarity in

oppression, aggression and destabilization of neighboring States in South

Africa and the Middle East respectively;

16.

APPEALS to both the leaders of the United States and USSR to consider

the problems of the Middle East and its core the Question of Palestine

with priority when discussing regional conflicts in their forthcoming

meeting in Moscow and to spare no efforts in contributing for a just and

lasting solution which guarantees the national inalienable rights of the

Palestinian people including their rights to self-determination, return,

and establishment of the independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as

its capital;

17.

REQUEST the OAU Secretary-General to monitor the developments in

the Middle East question and to report to the next Ordinary Session of

the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity.

CM/Res.1156 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON SOLIDARITY WITH TUNISIA

FOLLOWING THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AGAINST ITS

SOVEREIGNTY AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Gravely concerned over the systematic violation of Tunisia’s sovereignty and

territorial integrity by the State of Israel, because of Tunisia’s constant support

to the people of Palestine under the leadership of the PLO in their struggle

against the Zionist State of Israel for the recovery of their inalienable right to

self-determination,

Considering the assassination on Tunisian territory, of Khalil Alwasir, Deputy

Commander-in-Chief of the Palestinian Revolutionary Forces (Abu Jihad) was

planned, organized and executed by the State of Israel, was aimed at weakening

the heroic struggle of the Palestinian people,

Profoundly indignant at the savage act and concerned about the serious threat of

such state terrorism:

VEHEMENTLY CONDEMNS this heinous act which is a further

illustration of Israel’s policy of aggression and destabilization, and state

terrorism practiced by Israel;

REITERATES ITS SUPPORT for and solidarity with Tunisia, victim of

Israel’s repeated aggression and denounces the violation, by the State of

Israel, of Tunisia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity which constitutes

a serious threat to peace and security for the countries in the region, in

particular, and international peace in general.

CM/Res.1157 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON AFRO-ARAB CO-OPERATION

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General contained in document

CM/1510 (XLVIII),

Bearing in mind the Declarations and Programme of Action adopted by the First

Afro-Arab Summit Conference held in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, from 7 to

9 March 1977,

Reaffirming its determination to promote and strengthen Afro-Arab Co-

operation,

Recalling its Resolution CM/1130 (XLVIII),

Considering the recommendations of the ad-hoc meeting of Ministers of Foreign

Affairs of the Outgoing and the Current Chairman of the OAU and the Outgoing

Secretary-General of the two Organizations, held in Damascus, the Arab

Republic of Syria, on 2 and 3 May, 1988:

TAKES NOTE of the report of the Secretary-General on Afro-Arab Co-

operation;

CONGRATULATES the Governments of the countries which took part

in the Damascus meeting and the Secretaries-General of the two

Organizations, OAU/Arab League, on the efforts deployed to ensure the

success of the meeting;

ACCEPTS the recommendation of the meeting to convene in the latter

part of 1988, the Ninth Session of the Standing Commission of Afro-Arab

Co-operation in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, with the participation of

only the Member States of the Commission;

URGES the Standing Commission for Afro-Arab Co-operation to

consider ways and means to reactivate the functioning of the supreme

organs of Afro-Arab Co-operation, namely the Joint Afro-Arab

Conference of Ministers and the Afro-Arab Summit;

ALSO REQUESTS the Standing Commission to prepare the draft agenda

of the First Session of the Joint Afro-Arab Conference of Ministers to be

held in Khartoum, Republic of the Sudan, on a date to be fixed by the

Government of the Republic of the Sudan and the Secretaries-General of

the League of Arab States and the Organization of African Unity;

EXPRESSES ITS THANKS to the Government of the Arab Republic of

Syria for hosting the ad-hoc meeting in Damascus;

EXPRESSES ITS GRATITUDE to the Government of Burkina Faso for

its readiness to host the Ninth Session of the Standing Commission for

Afro-Arab Co-operation;

EXPRESSES ITS THANKS to the Government of the Republic of the

Sudan for its ever-readiness to host the First Session of the Joint- Afro-

Arab Conference of Ministers;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the OAU to pursue his efforts in

close co-operation with his counterpart of the League of Arab States, to

reactivate all the institutional organs of Afro-Arab Co-operation set up by

the First Afro-Arab Summit Conference, and to carefully prepare the

Ninth Session of the Standing Commission for Afro-Arab Co-operation

scheduled to take place between November and December 1988.

CM/Res.1158 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON CURRENT INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the Organization of

African Unity,

Recalling the OAU Charter emphasizes the promotion of International Co-

operation as one of its main purposes and declares the adherence of all Member

States to the policy of Non-Alignment with regard to all blocks as one of its

solemn principles,

Aware of the signs of change in international climate which would lead to major

developments affecting different aspects of international relations,

Also aware of the emergence of a period of détente where a relaxation of tension

would prevail in the relations between the two super power and would be

extended to the international scene,

Recognizing that the Non-Aligned Movement has welcomed a détente that is

comprehensive and open to which it has greatly contributed,

Observing that the leaders of the two super powers are scheduled to meet shortly

to discuss matters of common and international concern including a genuine

process of disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament,

Observing further the Non-Aligned Movement is scheduled to hold a ministerial

meeting in the near future:

WELCOMES the fact that the two super powers have entered into a

process of contacts, negotiations and possible agreement on a

disarmament process;

ALSO WELCOMES the fact that there are real opportunities for global

détente and that improvements are evident in the international

environment;

EMPHASIZES that if détente is to last, it must be universal, global and

open;

EMPHASIZES FURTHER that Third World Countries should play a

more active and positive role in the process of détente and participate in it

on an equal footing in the interest of the entire international community;

REMAINS STRONGLY CONVINCED that all actions, negotiations or

agreements must be based on strict observance of the principles and

objectives of the United Nations Charter if they are to succeed or last;

CALLS UPON the Non-Aligned Movement to monitor carefully the

aforementioned developments and recommends that the Non-Aligned

Movement start a process of reassessment of the international situation

and the impact of these developments on the Third World Countries as

well as on their just causes;

REITERATES once again the fundamental principle of the OAU Charter

concerning the adherence of all Member States to the policy of Non-

Alignment with regard to all blocs, which under the present

circumstances champions the right to self-determination, independence,

sovereignty, territorial integrity, equality, mutual respect and co-

operation among all States.

CM/Res.1159 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE 25

ANNIVERSARY OF THE OAU

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report of the Organization Committee on the Twenty-

Fifth Anniversary of the OAU (Document CM/1490 (XLVIII)),

Inspired by the desire to commemorate this event with a special splendor:

CONGRATULATES the Organizing Committee and the General

Secretariat for satisfactorily monitoring the Organization’s Programme

adopted by the Forty-Seventh Ordinary Session of the Council of

Ministers and urges them to successfully implement the remaining

activities of the Programme;

REQUESTS the Organizing Committee to submit a comprehensive

account and make relevant recommendations to the Forty-ninth

Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers scheduled for February

1989 which would be the forum for deliberations on the commemoration

of the Twenty-fifth (25

) Anniversary of the OAU.

CM/Res.1160 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE CANDIDATURE OF MR. MOHAMMED

ENNACEUR FOR THE POST OF ILO DIRECTOR-GENERAL

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Considering the need for Africa to play an active role through its effective

presence in the Institutions of the United Nations System,

Recalling the Recommendation of the Nominating Committee, to the Forty-

seventh Ordinary Session of the Council, calling for the support of Africa for

Mr. Mohammed ENNACEUR, contained in Doc. MCC/RPT/1 (III),

Further recalling the recommendation of the Eleventh Ordinary Session of the

OAU Labour Commission supporting the candidature presented by Tunisia for

the post of ILO Director-General,

Bearing in mind the defeat suffered last year by other African Candidates

sponsored by OAU, owing inter-alia to the lack of solidarity and unity among

some Member States during the elections within the United Nations Organs,

Conscious of the urgent need for Member States to adopt in future, a common

stand on African candidatures and of their obligation to consequently honor

their commitments:

TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the Nominating Committee in

favor of the candidate presented by Tunisia, (Doc. MCC/RPT/1 (III));

ENDORSES the decision of the OAU Labour Commission to support the

Candidature of Mr. Mohammed ENNACEUR as the African Candidate

for the post of ILO Director-General;

CM/Res.1161 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE RECONSTITUTION OF MEMBERS OF THE

POLICY COMMITTEE OF THE SPECIAL EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE

FUND

FOR DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered Document CM/1501 (XLVIII) relating to the reconstitution of

membership of the Policy Committee of the Special Emergency Assistance Fund

for Drought and Famine in Africa,

Recalling Resolutions AHG/Res.133 (XX), CM/Res.962 (XLI) and CM/Res.1006

(XLII) regarding the modalities for the operation of the Fund,

Considering the Statutes of the Special Fund and, particularly the provisions of

Article 7 Paragraphs 3 and 4 and Rules 2 paragraph (i) and (ii) of the Rules of

Procedure of the Policy Committee of this Fund:

DECIDES to renew the composition of the Policy Committee of the

Special Emergency Assistance Fund for Drought and Famine in Africa as

follows: Algeria, Burundi, Chad, Ghana, Guinea, Lesotho, Libya,

Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Uganda, Tanzania and Zimbabwe;

SPECIFIES that the mandate of the 6 new Member States will start as

from the Seventh Session of the Policy Committee scheduled for

December 1988 for a period of 3 years;

FURTHERMORE DECIDES that pursuant to the Statutes of the Fund,

elections for the renewal of the composition of the Policy Committee will

be held on the following years – 1988 – 1991 – 1994 – for the renewal of

the 6 member States; 1989 – 1992 – 1995 for the renewal of the remaining

7 Member States;

CM/Res.1162 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON MID-TERM REVIEW OF THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF THE UN PROGRAMME OF ACTION FOR

AFRICAN ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

1986 - 1990

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Recalling the Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (1986 – 1990)

adopted by the OAU Heads of State and Government in July 1985, and the UN

Programme of Action for Africa’s Economic Recovery and Development (1986 –

1990) adopted by the Thirteenth Extra-ordinary Session of the General

Assembly in May 1986,

Guided by the relevant provisions of the resolution AHG/Res.136 (XXI) of the

OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government establishing the Permanent

Steering Committee,

Recalling further the resolution CM/Res.1064 (XLIV) on the Special Session of

the UN General Assembly on Africa’s Critical Economic Situation, adopted by

the Council in July 1986,

Having considered the Preliminary Report of the OAU Permanent Steering

Committee on the Mid-Tern Review of the implementation of the UNPAAERD

to be presented to the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the UNGA (6 – 19

September 1988):

TAKES NOTE of the report of the Permanent Steering Committee on the

Preliminary Assessment and Mid Term Review of the implementation of

UNPAAERD Doc. CM/1490 (XLVIII);

ENDORSES the arrangements for the 14

meeting of the Permanent

Steering Committee in New York, from 24 – 30 August 1988, for the

preparation and finalization of Africa’s contribution to the UNPAAERD

Mid Term Review to be presented to the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole

of the UN General Assembly during the 43

regular session of the UN

General Assembly;

APPEALS to the Member States who have not yet done so to transmit to

the Secretariats of OAU and ECA their responses to the ECA

questionnaire on the UN Programme Implementation;

URGES all the Member States who have not yet done so to establish and

strengthen their national follow-up mechanisms responsible for

monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of APPER and

UNPAAERD and which will serve as focal points during the subsequent

reviews of the programme;

CALLS ON the ADB and other relevant African economic and financial

institutions to lend their technical support to the Permanent Steering

Committee and provide their inputs in the review exercise;

REQUESTS the OAU Permanent Steering Committee and the African

Group in New York to take the necessary steps in order to ensure proper

co-ordination and harmonization of their efforts during the preparation

of Africa’s contribution as well as during the Mid Term Review Meeting

in New York;

INVITES the out-going Members of the Permanent Steering Committee

to take active part in the preparations and finalization of the Africa’s

assessment to be presented to the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the

UN General Assembly, and to participate in the 14

meeting of the

Permanent Steering Committee mentioned in paragraph 2 above;

DIRECTS the Chairman of the Permanent Steering Committee to be the

spokesman of the African Group during the Mid-term Review Meeting of

the Ad-Hoc Committee of the UN General Assembly;

CM/Res.1163 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON AFRICAN CHILD SURVIVAL

AND DEVELOPMENT AND UNIVERSAL

IMMUNIZATION IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Noting the OAU Secretary-General’s report and the UNICEF/WHO

contribution to the African Child Survival and Development Initiative and

Universal Child Immunization in the African Continent (Doc. CM/1505),

Recalling the OAU Assembly of Heads of State and Government resolution

AHG/Res.163 (XXIII), of the Twenty-third Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, in

July 1987,

Considering Declaration AHG/ST. 4 (XVI), on the Rights and Welfare of African

Child which recommended, inter alia, the formulation and implementation of

programmes in the field of Health, Nutrition and Education, as part of national

development plans, with a view to making the services universally accessible to

all children within the shortest possible time,

Recalling various United Nations Pronouncements especially the 1959

Declaration on the Right of the Child and Resolution A/31/169 of the United

Nations General Assembly proclaiming 1979 as the International Year of the

Child, also the Proclamation of the year 1986 as Africa’s Immunization Year by

the 35

Regional Committee of WHO for Africa (1985),

Determined to implement at national, sub-regional and continental levels and

together with national international, non-governmental and private voluntary

organizations the programmes undertaken to promote child welfare by

providing facilities in the field of medical care, nutrition, education and other

basic services,

Aware of the deep concern of African Member States about the future of African

children as inheritors and keepers of African cultural heritage and custodians of

tomorrow,

Further noting with interest the progress accomplished by UNICEF/WHO and

the international community in reducing child mortality and morbidity through,

among other interventions, immunizations,

Bearing in mind the objectives of the “Bamako Initiative” to achieve universal

PHC for women and children as, set by the meeting of African Health Ministers,

with the support of the Executive Director of UNICEF and Director-General of

WHO,

Cognizant of the decision of the 23

ordinary Session of the OAU Assembly of

Heads of State and Government in July 1987, in Addis Ababa, to declare 1988, as

the Year for Protection, Survival and Development of the African Child, using

immunization programmes as a vehicle for achieving other wider goals,

Appreciating the efforts made by Member States to achieve the goal of universal

child immunization by the year 1990 in spite of the world economic depression

and its severe repercussions on the African Continent,

Taking note of the efforts undertaken within the framework of the preparation

of the UN Draft Convention on the Rights of the Child:

CONGRATULATES the Secretary-General of the OAU on his report and

collaborative initiatives with UNICEF, WHO, international community,

NGOs and PVOs;

THANKS the Executive Director of UNICEF for his efforts to facilitate

the implementation of Resolution AHG/Res.163 (XXIII) through the

mobilization of resources for the survival and development of the African

Child;

FURTHER THANKS the WHO Director-General for his efforts to

accelerate primary health care implementation and in particular child

immunization programmes in the African region;

URGES Member States to make full use of available resources in the

continent to enhance the immunization coverage in order to reach the

target of universal immunization of the African Child by the year 1990;

and thereby combat the six major killer diseases of children;

FURTHER URGES Member States to strive to combat all malaria,

diarrheal disease and respiratory infections, in order to substantially

reduce child and maternal mortality rates by at least 50 percent by the

year 2000;

CALLS ON Member States to increase the budgetary allocations to

ensure sustainability of immunization programmes and combating

childhood communicable diseases and further integration of these

programmes into the National Primary Health Care Plans (PHC);

ENDORSES the “Bamako Initiative” to achieve primary health care of

children and women, as a main means of maintaining the presently

successful UCI Programmes in the 1990’s and FURTHER CALLS on

Member States to strive towards making maternal and child health care

available to all communities and peripheral districts by mid-1990s;

APPEALS to Member States to do everything possible to provide

maternal and child health care to all communities and to all outlying

regions by the mid-1990’s;

FURTHER CALLS ON Member States to undertake or continue their

efforts to review the current legal codes and provisions relating to the

rights of the Child, particularly by taking into account the 1959 UN

Declaration on the Rights of the Child;

10.

URGES UN General Assembly and the international community to work

towards an early completion of the drafting of the “Convention on the

Rights of the Child”, and its adoption by the General Assembly in 1989;

11.

REQUESTS the OAU Secretary-General to further enhance his active

role in this regard and to report to the OAU Council of Ministers at its

Fiftieth Ordinary Session of the achievement made in this endeavor;

12.

URGES the Executive Secretary of UNICEF, Director-General of WHO

to assist Member States in their efforts to achieve the goal of universal

immunization of African children by the year 1990 through financial,

material and human support and to work closely with the OAU Health

Bureau to achieve the targeted goals.

CM/Res.1164 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE PROGRAMME OF ESSENTIAL

MEDICINES FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR MOTHERS

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Conscious of the fact that human resources in general, mothers and children in

particular constitute the main wealth of the Continent,

Convinced of the need to ensure the welfare of mothers and children through

effective and less expensive actions, with long lasting effects, so as to guarantee

their active participation in the economic development efforts of African States:

WELCOMES Resolution No. AFR/RC3/WP/05 adopted by the Regional

Committee of the World Health Organization for Africa in support of the

“Bamako Initiative”;

EXPRESSES SATISFACTION at the full support given the initiative by

many African States;

ENCOURAGES those States which have already begun taking action to

pursue their efforts and URGES those desirous of undertaking such

actions to do so;

PAYS TRIBUTE to the World Health Organization for its technical

support for the initiative and to the Governing Council of the United

Nations Children’s Fund for having adopted a resolution in support of the

immediate implementation of this initiative and for having mobilized

substantial resources to support the efforts of those States which have

begun to take actions or are desirous of doing so;

CALLS UPON Member States to:

launch a large-scale campaign aimed at alerting a large number of

people to the positive aspects of this initiative;

integrate elements of this initiatives into their countries’ health

policy on mother and child care by defining an appropriate policy

for essential medicines;

mobilize to win the support of the donor and bilateral or

multilateral bodies in favor of the extension of the system to the

population in those countries which have opted for this initiative.

REQUESTS the WHO Regional Director and the Executive Director of

UNICEF to do everything within their power to ensure the

implementation of the programmes adopted, organize meetings among

countries with a view to exchanging ideas and experiences on the issue,

and to encourage bodies and agencies concerned to define and support

plans of action.

CM/Res.1165 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON AIDS PREVENTION IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the report of the OAU Secretary-General on Acquired

Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), CM/1504 (XLVIII),

Concerned with the spread of the Killer disease in Africa,

Realizing that the transmission of AIDS can be controlled through education and

information to the public to effect change of their behavioral patterns and life

styles,

Noting the efforts undertaken by OAU Member States and supported by the

World Health Organization and international community as a whole and

African Scientific Community in particular to halt the advance of AIDS, the new

scourge to humanity,

Stressing the fact the HIV Virus has no know geographical origin and does not

respect national boundaries, and

Convinced that the London Declaration on AIDS Prevention of 28 January 1988

constitutes the basis, methodology and orchestrated global action for AIDS

Control,

RECOMMENDS THAT:

On National Level

(1)

Member States to undertake to disseminate

information and give counseling on AIDS

continuously and extensively;

(2)

While underscoring the control and eradication of

endemic diseases in Africa, Member States to attach

great importance to the struggle against AIDS

within the programme of Primary Health Care;

(3)

Member States to strengthen the technical

capabilities of health workers through research,

training and information;

(4)

Member States to do everything in their power to

encourage, promote and acknowledge the research

by African Scientists.

II.

At the OAU General Secretariat Level

(1)

The General Secretariat takes the necessary

measures to inscribe an item on the agenda of the

forthcoming Session of the Council of African

Ministers of Health on the state of research in Africa

in the field of AIDS in Africa;

(2)

URGES the Secretary-General to strengthen the

existing Health Bureau of the OAU so as to cater,

among others, for the problem of AIDS.

III.

At International Level

URGES the International Institutions, Non-governmental

Organizations (NGOs), Private Voluntary Organs (PVOs)

as well as Donor Agencies, to work closely with African

National Health Authorities with the view to containing the

killer disease.

CM/Res.1166 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON AFRICA AND THE WORLD CULTURE

DEVELOPMENT DECADE

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Recalling its Resolution CM/1074 (XLIV) on the setting up of a Conference of

African Ministers of Culture (CAMC) and on the World Cultural Development

Decade (1968 – 1977),

Reaffirming Declaration AHG/DECL.2 (XXL) adopted by the Twenty-first

Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU

on the cultural aspects of the Lagos Plan of Action,

Convinced that the success of the Lagos Plan of Action and Final Act and

Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (1986 – 1990) and the

United Nations Programme of Action for Africa’s Economic Recovery and

Development calls for the active participation of populations and the taking into

consideration of their cultural identity,

Recalling Resolution 41/187 adopted on December 8, 1986 by the General

Assembly of UNO on the World Cultural Development Decade,

Having heard the report of the Secretary-General of the OAU on the Second

Conference of African Ministers of Culture (CAMC) held in Ouagadougou from

March 21 to 27, 1988:

WELCOMES the proclamation by the General Assembly of UNO of the

World Cultural Development Decade (1988 – 1997);

EXHORTS Member States to take necessary measures to ensure Africa’s

successful participation in the Decade’s programmes;

RECOMMENDS to Member State to draw up and implement projects

aimed at:

taking into consideration the cultural component of development,

affirming and enriching Cultural identities,

broadening participation in cultural life,

promoting inter-African co-operation;

guaranteeing freedom of expression which is a proof of an

authentic Cultural development

free movement of cultural goods between African countries,

fighting to eliminate apartheid and all forms of racism throughout

the world and particularly in South Africa.

TAKES NOTE of the Resolutions of the Second Conference of African

Ministers of Culture;

ADDRESSES sincere thanks to the Head of State and to the Government

and people of Burkina Faso for the fraternal and warm welcome extended

to the Second Conference of African Ministers of Culture and for the

facilities placed at the disposal of delegates.

CM/Res.1167 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE PAN AFRICAN LINGUISTIC

ASSOCIATION

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Recalling the recommendations of the final report of the meeting of the OAU

Linguistic Expert, in Kampala, 1985 calling inter alia for the creation of a Pan-

African Linguistic Association,

Recalling resolution CMAC/Res. 21 (1) adopted at the First Conference of

African Ministers of Culture, in Port-Louis, endorsing the establishment of a

Pan-African Language Association,

Recalling further resolution CM/Res.1123 (XLVI) of the 46

Ordinary Session of

the Council of Ministers in Addis Ababa, July 1987 calling for greater co-

operation among national and regional language institutions in order to co-

ordinate their activities,

Having examined the Report of the Secretary-General on the Consultative

Meeting on the Formation of a Pan-African Linguistic Association:

TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Secretary-General and supports the

Convening of a Congress of African Linguists as a forum for the

establishment of a Pan-African Linguistic Association;

REQUESTS Member States to strengthen or establish, where they are

non-existent, national language associations as the backbone of the Pan-

African Linguistic Association and of the basis for co-operation in the

speedy implementation of the Language Plan of Action for Africa;

REQUESTS Member States to provide the Secretary-General of the OAU

with all practical and material assistance necessary to convene the First

CM/Res.1168 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE

ELEVENTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE OAU

LABOUR COMMISSION

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Having considered the Report of the Secretary-General on the proceedings of the

Eleventh Ordinary Session of the OAU Labour Commission (Document LC/2

(XI),

Aware of the importance of promoting and providing productive and gainful

employment and of raising labour productivity as spelt out in the Lagos Plan of

Action and the Final Act, and of Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic

Recovery and Development,

Recalling the previous resolutions on the Structural Reform of the ILC as well as

the role played by the African and other developing countries in the

democratization and reform of the ILO structure,

Further recalling the recommendation of the Forty-seventh Ordinary Session of

the Council as well as the Commission’s Resolution LC/Res.125 (XI) on the

Candidature of Mr. Mohammed Ennaceur of Tunisia as the African candidate

for the post of Director-General of the ILO:

TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Secretary-General on the Proceedings

of the Eleventh Session of the Commission;

APPEALS to those Member States which have not yet done so to forward

their respective replies to the OAU Secretariat on:

(i)

the structure and functions of African Ministries of Labour and

(ii)

employment promotion in the informal sector.

REMINDS Member States to send tripartite delegations to the Pan-

African Tripartite Seminar on the productivity of the African Worker to

be held in Lagos, Nigeria, from 25 to 29 July, 1988;

URGES all Member States which have not yet done so, to ratify the

constitutional amendments of the ILO’s Constitution and deposit the

instruments of ratification with the International Labour Office as soon

as possible;

RECOMMENDS that the Twenty-fourth Ordinary Session of the

Assembly of Heads of State and Government endorses the African

candidature for the post of Director-General of the ILO;

CALLS UPON the African Tripartite Group of the ILO Governing Body

and REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the OAU to make the

necessary efforts during the Seventy-fifth Session of the International

Labour Conference and in the Governing Body so as to enlist the support

of the other regional groups for this candidature.

CM/Res.1169 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARITIME TRANSPORT

IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May

1988,

Guided by the principles and objectives of the Charter of the Organization of

African Unity and specifically Article II on the need for Member States to co-

ordinate and harmonize their general policies on economic co-operation

including transport and communications,

Recalling the high priority accorded to co-ordinated and integrated development

of the transport and communications sector by the Lagos Plan of Action and the

Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic Recovery,

Recalling further its Resolution AM/Res.1107 (XLVI) on the organization of a

meeting of African Experts Preparatory to the Diplomatic Review Conference on

the United Nations Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences,

Taking note of the information given by the General Secretariat on the outcome

of the said meeting which was held under the auspices of the OAU in Addis

Ababa from 2 to 6 May 1988,

Convinced of the important role played by maritime transport in the economies

of African States,

Conscious of the need for African States to promote their socio-economic

development by establishing the appropriate organizational and operational

structures to help reduce their foreign exchange expenditures:

URGES Member States:

(a)

to accord high priority to the telecommunications sector;

(b)

to provide their Telecommunications Administration with

appropriate organizational, managerial and financial structures so

as to enable them to fully respond to the needs of modern

telecommunications;

(c)

to encourage the utilization of the installed network by establishing

operational and transit arrangements including tariff agreements

as well as adequate maintenance structures;

CALLS UPON Member States to give full support to African Sub-

regional and Regional Telecommunications Organizations particularly,

PATU which have an important role to play in co-ordinating the

programmes of Member States in achieving optimum utilization and

operational efficiency of the PANAFTEL network;

EXPRESSES ITS APPRECIATION TO UNDP, ADB, ITU and other

international agencies for their assistance to Member States in the

development of their telecommunications sector;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to

mobilize funds for an integrated and co-ordinated development of the

telecommunications sub-sector in Africa;

FURTHER REQUESTS the Secretary-General to report periodically on

the implementation of the resolution.

CM/Res. 1170 (XLVIII)

DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE MULTINATIONAL CIVIL

AVIATION TRAINING CENTRE FOR ADDIS ABABA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May,

1988,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the Multinational

Civil Aviation Training Centre of Addis Ababa (Doc.CM/1500 (XLVIII),

Recalling Council Resolutions CM/Res.568 (XXIV) and CM/Res.655 on the

establishment of Multinational Pilot and Aircraft Maintenance Technicians

Training Centres in Africa,

Recalling further Council Resolution CM/Res.894 (XXXVII) on the ratification

of the Convention on the Establishment of the Multinational Pilot and Aircraft

Maintenance Technicians Training Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and

M’Vengue, Gabon,

Noting that the Convention establishing the Multinational Civil Aviation

Training Centre in Addis Ababa and the Protocol on the transitional

arrangement have been ratified by only one Member State, despite reminders

sent to Member States by AFCAC and OAU Secretariat on the need to ratify the

Convention,

Noting further that the ratification of the Convention is a prerequisite for the

transformation of the Ethiopian Airlines Training Centre into a Multinational

one,

Mindful of the fact that financial institutions and executing agencies will only

provide further assistance to the Centre if the Convention is ratified by Member

States:

REQUESTS the Secretary-General to use the opportunity afforded by the

special Conference of the Ministers of Civil Aviation scheduled to take

place from 3 to 7 October 1988 in Cote d’Ivoire, to hold consultations

with a view to solving the problems impeding the transformation of the

Ethiopian Airlines Training Centre into a multinational one;

EXPRESSES ITS APPRECIATION to UNDP for the financial assistance

and to ICAO for the technical assistance given in the establishment of the

Training Centre and once again appeals to the International Financing

Institutions to extend similar assistance including fellowships for the

students at the Centre;

INVITES the Secretary-General to follow-up and report to the Fifteenth

Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers.

CM/Res.1171 (XLVIII)

DRAFT RESOLUTION ON THE PROGRAMME OF THE

INTERNATIONAL HYDROGEOLOGICAL MAP OF AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eight Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May 1988,

Having heard the report of the Secretary-General of the OAU on the progress

made by the African Organization of Cartography and Remote Sensing

“AOCRS” to implement the International Hydrogeological Map of Africa

Programme since the Forty-first Session in conformity with the provisions of

Resolution CM/Res.979 (XLI),

Recalling the Resolutions CM/Res.336 (XXIII), CM/Res.450 (XXV), CM/Res.702

(XXXII), CM/Res.945 (XL) ad especially CM/Res.979 (XLI) concerning the

project as well as its inclusion in Africa’s Priority Programme for Economic

Recovery (Chap. II para. IV 82 (V)) as adopted by the OAU Assembly of Heads

of State and Government in July 1985,

Noting with satisfaction the progress made to date by the “AOCRS” in its

implementation of this programme and in its attempt to ensure fruitful co-

ordination and co-operation with international and regional organizations

especially UNESCO, ACSAD and ICHS:

CONGRATULATES the Secretary-General of the “AOCRS” and the

Permanent Scientific Co-ordination for the important work done to

implement this programme in spite of the limited financial and human

resources;

APPROVES AND SUPPORTS the Plan of Action and Resolutions issued

by the Experts during their Third Meeting held in Addis Ababa, from

November 12 to 14, 1986 (and particularly the holding of an International

Symposium on African Hydrogeology and the setting up of Sub-regional

Centres to process and analyze information on water resources;

APPROVES “AOCRS” – ICHS co-operation for the programme as

defined by these two Organizations;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General of the OAU to continue giving

priority attention to this programme and supply the necessary financial

assistance to the “AOCRS” to enable it to carry out the activities of the

programme under good conditions;

RECOMMENDS to all African and International Organizations to

ensure that their efforts are better co-ordinated with those of the OAU

and the “AOCRS” when pursuing similar activities aimed at producing

maps on water resources on the African continent and that assists the

“AOCRS” in carrying out its programme;

THANKS States and Organizations that have participated in or have

expressed their intention to co-operate with the OAU and the “AOCRS”

in carrying out the IHMAP.

CM/Res.1172 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS

IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19-23 May 1988,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the Development of

Telecommunications in Africa, Document AM/1499 (XLVIII)),

Recalling Resolutions CM/Res.404 (XXIV) on the Creation of the PANAFTEL

Co-ordinating Committee and CM/Res.885 (XXXVII) on the implementation of

the PANAFTEL Network,

Recalling further Resolution CM/Res.506 (XXVII) calling for a feasibility study

on the Establishment of a Regional African Satellite Communication System,

Considering the prevailing unsatisfactory situation of the telecommunications

sub-sector in Africa and the under utilization of the installed PANAFTEL

network,

Conscious of the importance of telecommunication in the socio-economic

development and physical integration of the Continent as well as its supportive

role to the food and agricultural sector;

EXPRESSES its satisfaction to Member States for the efforts so far

deployed in the implementation of the PANAFTEL Network and invites

them to continue as well as intensify their efforts;

Considering that regional and continental co-operation in this specific sector is

imperative:

ENDORSES the recommendations of the meeting of African Experts

preparatory to the Diplomatic Review Conference on the United Nations

Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences;

APPEALS to all Member States to actively and effectively participate in

the Diplomatic Conference on the Review of the United Nations

Convention on the Code of Conduct of Liner Conferences due to be held

in the autumn of 1988 in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations

with a view to effectively defending African interests by consolidating the

results already achieved by African countries from the application of the

Convention;

FURTHER APPEALS to Member States who are not party to the

Convention to accede to it by signing and ratifying the said Convention, if

possible, before the holding of the Diplomatic Conference on the Review

in order to strengthen Africa’s position during the negotiations;

CALLS ON the Secretary-General to assist in the setting up of regional

shippers/liners organizations to strengthen co-operation among Member

States;

ENCOURAGES the Secretary-General to continue his efforts with the

financial support of the UNDP and technical support of the relevant

organizations in order to rapidly establish the Association of Shippers

Councils/African Liners;

EXPRESSES ITS SINCERE THANKS to the West and Central African

Conference of Ministers on Maritime Transport and UNCTAD for their

invaluable assistance in the organization and the holding of the Meeting

of African Experts;

CALLS ON the Secretary-General to submit periodic reports to the

Council on the implementation of this resolution.

CM/Res.1173 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON LOCUST CONTROL IN AFRICA

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting at its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 to 23 May,

1988,

Noting the measures taken by Member States within the framework of locust

control through their various intergovernmental regional organizations,

Considering that the North and West African regions has been seriously affected

by the locust invasion,

Having considered the memorandum of African States on Locust Control in

Africa,

Considering that the locust problem is international in nature and scope,

Considering that locust invasions and other migrant pests constitute increased

threat to the attainment of self-sufficiency and food security in African countries,

Considering that the specialized intergovernmental organizations are no longer

adapted to the prevailing situation due particularly to the mono-specific

character of their actions,

Conscious of the inadequacy of their national resources,

Conscious of the fact that the control of regional scourges requires increased

mobilization of appropriate human scientific actions among African States in

general and North and West African States, the Sahel and the Red Sea in

particular:

REQUESTS the Secretary-General to undertake on the one hand, studies

to determine and delimit the various geographical and ecological zones of

Africa with a view to establishing polyvalent intergovernmental

organization (AMPCA*) with varied objectives in the control of

migratory pests and, on the other, to assess the logistic, material and

human needs of these scourges in the ecological zones concerned;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General to look into the possibility of the

Organization financing the above-mentioned studies (the cost of which

appears as annex);

CALLS UPON the Secretary-General to establish a joint Permanent

OAU, ECA and FAO task force responsible for obtaining the necessary

funds from donor agencies with a view to containing this scourge without

further delay;

THANKS the various donor agencies which provided assistance to the

various African countries in the control of the regional scourges;

CALLS UPON the international community to continue to support

African States until this scourge is removed;

CALLS UPON Member States to strengthen their phytosanitory services

for an effective implementation of the programmes designed to control

calamities at national level and for an added contribution to the

implementation of the programmes conceived to control calamities at the

level of the regions;

CHARGES the Secretary-General in collaboration with the Permanent

Steering Committee to follow up the implementation of this resolution

and report to its next Session.

*AMPCA: Agency for Migratory Pests Control in Africa

CM/Res./1173 (XLVIII)

Annex

FEASIBILITY STUDY AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS

An expert for two months/Man per ecological area

Honorary: $US3000 x 2

US$

6,000 x 5

Air tickets

US$

3,842 x 5

Transport by road

US$

375 x 5

Subsistence allowance

US$

7,455 x 5

Stationery and office supplies

US$

328 x 5

______________

Total

US$ 18,000 x 5 = 90,00.00

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Countries visited: the countries concerned by each of the five ecological

areas considered.

CM/Res.1174 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE THIRD REPLENISHMENT OF IFAD’S

RESOURCES

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in the

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, from 19 to 23 May, 1988,

Recalling Resolution CM/Res.1060 (XLIV) adopted at its Forty-fourth Ordinary

Session and Resolution CM/Res.1119 (XLIV) adopted at its Forty-sixth Ordinary

Session on IFAD’s Special Programme for Sub-Saharan African countries

affected by Drought and Desertification,

Bearing in mind General Assembly Resolution S-13/2 and particularly, the

stipulation of the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic

Recovery and Development 1986-1990 in which the African countries and the

international community committed themselves, inter alia, to giving priority

attention and increased resources to the rehabilitation and development of food

and agriculture in Africa,

Emphasizing the key role of agriculture, and within agriculture the traditional

small holder sector, in bringing about the economic recovery and the

revitalization of the development process in Africa,

Recognizing the path-breaking contribution IFAD had made, both through

mobilizing substantial additional resources and by evolving innovative and

effective strategies to support the determined and brave efforts of smallholder

farmers and other rural poor to free themselves from hunger, poverty and

malnutrition,

Recording their deep appreciation to the developed and developing countries

whose generous contributions to IFAD’s Special Programme for Sub-Saharan

Africa have made it possible for the Programme’s target of US$300 million to be

achieved,

Noting with interest that IFAD’s Third Replenishment will be undertaken this

year and reiterates the appeal made by the international community in the final

act of UNCTAD VII for all countries to ensure the highest possible level of

resources for the Fund while preserving its unique structure,

Underlining the necessity to ensure that IFAD has sufficient resources to

consolidate in the coming years the breakthroughs against hunger and poverty

made in its first decade of operations,

The Council:

URGES all Member States of IFAD to demonstrate the requisite will and

flexibility so that the Replenishment can be completed successfully and

expeditiously before the Fund’s next Governing Council Session in

January 1989;

CALLS UPON the industrialized countries to take up a larger share of

the Replenishment in recognition of the sharp deterioration in the export

proceeds and external indebtedness of the developing country

contributors;

INVITES recipient developing countries to make the exceptional efforts

required to achieve the target contribution of US$75 million in

convertible currencies they have set for themselves at the First Session of

the Replenishment Consultation;

APPEALS to the traditional contributor developing countries to continue

to show their solidarity with the millions of hunger and poverty stricken

peoples of the developing countries and maintain their contributions to

the Third Replenishment at the same level as the Second Replenishment.

CM/Res.1175 (XLVIII)

RESOLUTION ON THE FINANCIAL

CRISIS FACING THE PAN-AFRICAN NEWS AGENCY

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 13 to 23 May

1988,

Having taken note of the concerns expressed in the declaration by the

delegations of the United Republic of Tanzania and of Senegal on the

deteriorating financial situation of the Pan-African News Agency (PANA),

Recalling the relevant resolutions of the Conference of African Ministers of

Information,

Conscious of the role of PANA in promoting information in Africa and in

informing peoples of the objectives and principles of the OAU Charter,

Affirming that the improvement of the financial situation of PANA is necessary

for it to successfully survive and execute its activities:

URGES Member States which have not yet done so, their contributions as

well as their arrears to the PANA budget;

RECOMMENDS that the Assembly of Heads of State and Government

request the Conference of African Ministers of Information to convene as

soon an possible a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on

Communications, in order to find a solution to this critical situation;

REQUESTS the Secretary-General to follow the developments of this

situation and report on the implementation of this resolution to the next

Session of the Council of Ministers.

CM/1176 (XLVIII)

DRAFT VOTE OF THANKS

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its

Forty-eighth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 19 – 23 May,

1988,

Expressing its great satisfaction at the excellent measures taken and which

contributed significantly to the success of the Forty-eighth Ordinary Session held

in spirit of brotherliness and cordiality,

Further expressing its full satisfaction at the competent manner in which the

Chairman of the Council of Ministers has conducted the deliberations of the

present Session:

EXPRESSES its gratitude and thanks to the Ethiopian Government and

people for the warm, brotherly and traditional welcome extended to the

delegations of the Member States of the OAU;

FURTHER EXPRESSES its sincere gratitude to Comrade Mengistu

Haile Marian, Secretary-General of the Central Committee of the

Workers Party of Ethiopia and President of the People’s Democratic

Republic of Ethiopia, for the important speech delivered on his behalf by

Comrade Berhanu Bayin, Member of the Political Bureau

of the Central

Committee of Workers’ Party and Minister for Foreign Affairs of

Ethiopia;

COMMENDS the Chairman of the Council and PAYS TRIBUTE for the

competent manner in which he has conducted the deliberations of the

Session;

COMMENDS and THANKS the Secretary-General and his staff for their

clear analyses and for the exhaustive information contained in the reports

presented to the Council and for the dedication they have shown

throughout the present Session.

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