CM/Res.992 (XLII) RESOLUTION ON THE AFRICAN REHABILITATION INSTITUTE
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Forty- second Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 10 to 17 July, 1985,
Recalling the decision taken at the Forty-first Session to refer the consideration of the issue of the establishment of the African Rehabilitation Institute (ARI) to the Fourth Conference of the African Ministers of Social Affairs (AMSA IV),
Taking note of the deliberations of that Conference and the resolution by which participants unanimously recommended the immediate establishment of ARI,
Conscious of the need to establish an African Rehabilitation Institute to deal with the fifty million disabled persons in Africa,
Aware of the fact that further consultations are underway to select States likely to host ARI branches in East, North and West Africa:
TAKES NOTE of the report of the Conference of the African Ministers of Social Affairs, particularly of the part concerning the ARI;
APPROVES the recommendations and the resolution contained in the report especially those relating to the ARI;
AUTHORIZES the Secretary-General a.i. to implement them immediately, in close co-operation with the ILO and the host countries;
CALLS UPON the host countries to provide all the necessary material, financial and other support for the immediate establishment of the ARI;
APPEALS to Organizations, Institutions and donor countries to support this important project;
REQUESTS the Ad Hoc Ministerial Committee of Ten composed of Algeria, Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Malawi, the Socialist People’s
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the United Republic of Tanzania and Zaire, to administer temporarily the ARI during the first two years of its establishment;
CALLS UPON the OAU Secretary-General a.i. to appoint the Executive Director a.i. of the ARI’s co -ordination unit and the ad interim Directors of the three ARI branches;
FURTHER REQUESTS the Advisory Committee on Administrative, Budgetary and Financial Matters to consider the draft agreement submitted by the OAU General Secretariat in order to make possible the launching of the first phase of the project;
APPROVES the Draft Agreement on the establishment of the ARI.