A/RES/51/151 Page 5 16. Urges the Secretary-General, Member States, regional and international organizations, in particular those of the United Nations system, and non-governmental organizations to extend their support to the operations of the African Economic Community and to assist in economic integration and cooperation in Africa, in particular the strengthening of the regional economic communities, the preparation of the protocols to the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community, its popularization and the strengthening of its institutional support; 17. Requests the agencies of the United Nations system working in Africa to include in their programmes at the national and regional levels activities that will enhance regional cooperation in their respective areas and to facilitate the realization of the objectives of the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community; 18. Calls upon the United Nations agencies to intensify the coordination of their regional programmes in Africa in order to create interlinkages among them and to ensure the harmonization of their programmes with those of the African regional and subregional economic organizations; 19. Emphasizes the urgency of the need to adopt appropriate measures to ensure the effective implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, in particular regarding (a) economic reforms, including the effective mobilization and efficient utilization of domestic resources, (b) promotion of the private sector and foreign direct investment, (c) intensification of the democratic process and the strengthening of civil society, (d) environment and development, (e) resource flows, (f) solution of Africa's debt problem, (g) trade facilitation and market access, (h) diversification of African economies, (i) improvement of physical and institutional infrastructure and social and human resource development and (j) women in development; 20. Urges all States and international subregional and regional organizations actively to implement the recommendations of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Whole of the General Assembly for the Mid-term Review of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, as adopted by the General Assembly at its fifty-first session; 21. Invites the Secretary-General to associate the Organization of African Unity closely with the follow-up and monitoring of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, including the conduct of the final review of its implementation in the year 2002; 22. Invites the Secretary-General of the United Nations to work closely with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity on the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, and requests that it be given prominence at the annual meeting of the two organizations; 23. Recalls its resolution 48/214, in paragraph 10 of which it invited the Secretary-General to follow up and promote the responses of the United Nations system and the international community to the development concerns of Africa, as expressed in the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s; /...