CM/Res.882 (XXXVII)
RESOLUTION ON THE RATIFICATION OF THE AFRICAN CULTURAL CHARTER
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,
Recalling Resolution CM/Res.857 (XXXIV), adopted at the Thirty-fourth Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 6 to 15 February 1980, requesting those Member States which had not yet done so, to ratify the African Cultural Charter,
Taking into account the fact that the African Cultural Charter is the ideal basis for the development policy and cultural co-operation among African countries,
Noting with concern the fact that only seventeen countries have so far ratified the said charter:
APPEALS once again to Member States which have not yet done so to ratify the African Cultural Charter, adopted since the Thirteenth Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity, held in Port Louis, Mauritius, from 2 to 5 July, 1976.