DECISION ON THE REPORT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT
IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE ON NEPAD
Assembly/AU.3 (IV)
The Assembly:
1. TAKES NOTE WITH APPRECIATION of the report presented by the Chairperson of the NEPAD Heads of State and Government Implementation Committee, H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria;
2. WELCOMES the Africa Commission as an important step towards the mobilization of international assistance for the implementation of NEPAD and commends its efforts in this regard;
3. CALLS UPON the international community to support NEPAD and in particular calls on the G8 countries to:
a) cancel all debts of African countries and take practical steps to urgently implement such cancellation;
b) double development assistance to Africa and improve its quality inter alia by channeling such increase through multilateral development institutions and by augmenting the budgetary support component of it;
c) take the necessary steps to complete the Doha round of trade negotiations at the earliest possible time so as to provide free and non-reciprocal access to their markets for African countries and eliminate export subsides for agricultural products.