CM/Res.875 (XXXVII) RESOLUTION ON THE DISABLED PERSONS
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Thirty- seventh Ordinary Session in Nairobi, Kenya from 15 to 26 June, 1981,
Having considered the report on the steps taken by the OAU General Secretariat and the International Labour Organization to implement Resolution CM/Res.834
(XXXVI) with regard to the establishment of a Regional African Institute for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons:
TAKES NOTE of the report and THANKS ILO for the technical assistance so far rendered towards the establishment of such a project;
APPEALS to the UNDP, other international Agencies and Humanitarian organizations to assist financially towards the establishment of such an Institute and the strengthening of the existing Centres dealing with disability prevention and the rehabilitation of the disabled persons in Africa;
INVITES OAU Member States to urgently provide the OAU Secretariat with all data on existing centres in their countries;
DECIDES to appoint the following Member States: Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea Bissau, Libya and Mozambique which will constitute a ministerial Ad Hoc Committee of Five on IYDP in accordance with Paragraph JO Resolution CM/834 (XXXVI), adopted by the Thirty-sixth Ordinary Session of the OAU Council of Ministers;
REQUESTS the Secretary-General to submit a report to the Thirty-eighth Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers on the state of implementation of this resolution.