CM/Res.1028 (XLIII)
RESOLUTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR CRIME PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF OFFENDERS
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Forty- third Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 25 February to 4 March 1986,
Having heard the Secretary-General’s Report on the Activities of the Organization (Document CM/1337 (XLIII) PART II) and, in particular, the section on the Establishment of an African Institute for Crime Prevention and Treatment of Offenders,
Having heard further the statement by the delegation of the Arab Republic of Egypt on the First African Conference on the Prevention of Crime held in Cairo, Egypt, from 29 November to 6 December 1985,
Considering the urgent need to adopt effective and appropriate measures designed to strengthen Inter-African Cooperation in the prevention and Control of crime and all forms of criminal offences:
CONGRATULATES the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt to have hosted the first Conference of Ministers of Interior to discuss crime in Africa and find adequate solutions to it;
CONGRATULATES FURTHER the Secretary-General for his Report on the Activities of the Organization and for drawing the Council's attention to this serious issue of crime prevention;
TAKES NOTE of the recommendations of the Cairo Conference particularly with regard to the Institutionalization of the Conference of African Ministers
responsible for Crime Prevention and the establishment of an African Bureau for Cooperation in Crime Prevention and Control;
INVITES the Secretary-General to submit these recommendations to the Twenty-second Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government for approval.