CM/Res. 1208 (L)
RESOLUTION ON THE AFRICAN ANTI-APARTHEID COMMITTEE
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Fiftieth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 17 to 22 July, 1989,
Noting that in pursuance of the recommendations of Declaration AHG/ST.2
(XXIII) of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government and Resolution CM/Res.1097 (XLVI) of the Council of Ministers of the OAU adopted in July 1987 in Addis Ababa, the Constituent General Assembly of the African Anti- Apartheid Committee was held in Brazzaville, the People’s Republic of the Congo from 12 to 14 January, 1989,
Recalling that the major objective of the Constituent General Assembly of the African Anti-Apartheid Committee were to provide a continental framework for co-ordinating the activities of national Anti-Apartheid Committee for the total eradication of
apartheid and effectively support the liberation struggle in Southern Africa,
Expressing the wish to promote and strengthen co-operation between the Organization of African Unity and the African Anti-Apartheid Committee:
NOTES and EXPRESSES SATISFACTION at the establishment of the African Anti-Apartheid Committee, a Non-Governmental Organization with its headquarters in Brazzaville, the People’s Republic of the Congo;
FURTHER TAKES NOTE of the will of the African Anti-Apartheid Committee to closely co-operate with the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations so as to intensify the anti-apartheid struggle in Southern Africa;
RECOMMENDS to the African Anti-Apartheid Committee to harmonize its activities with those of the United Nations Special Anti-Apartheid
Committee, the bodies of the United Nations System and their International Organizations concerned;
CALLS UPON the OAU Secretary-General to hold consultations with the Secretary-General of the African Anti-Apartheid Committee with a view to defining the modalities for establishing appropriate co-operation links between the Organization of African Unity and the said Committee;
REQUESTS the OAU Secretary-General after holding consultations with the Secretary-General of the African Anti-Apartheid Committee, to make recommendations to the Fifty-first Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers in order to establish effective co-operation between the OAU and the African Anti-Apartheid Committee.