CM/Res. 709 (XXXII)
RESOLUTION ON THE PROGRESS OF THE PROPOSED SETTING-UP OF A CONFERENCE OF AFR ICAN INTER- CONVENTIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
The Council of Minister of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Thirty- Second Ordinary Session in Nairobi, Republic of Kenya, from 23 February to 4 March, 1979,
Having studied the Report of the Administrative Secretary-General on the proposed setting-up of a Conference of African Inter-Governmental organizations, Doc. CM/953 (XXXII);
Recalling the various OAU resolutions on the setting-up of sub-regional economic groupings in Africa;
Desirous of obtaining as fully as possible information on the implications of the setting-up of a Conference of African Inter-Governmental Organizations, its institutionalization and running;
Aware of the needs for these African Inter-Governmental Organizations to hold regular consultations with one another in order to harmonies their programmes of work among themselves on the one hand and with the OAU on the other;
TAKES NOTE of the Progress Report presented by the Administrative Secretary- General on the proposed setting-up of a Conference of African Inter- Governmental Organizations;
REAFFIRMS the contents of Resolution CM/Res. 495 (XXVII) of the Twenty- Seventh Ordinary Session;
REQUESTS the OAU Administrative Secretary-General
to submit to the Thirty-Fourth Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers, a report analysing new developments regarding co-operation with Inter- Governmental Organizations as well as the implications of the setting-up, the institutionalization and running of a Conference of African Inter- Governmental Organizations;
to convene the Conference of Inter-Governmental Organizations as soon as financial arrangements are made.