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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 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 in the areas of resource
flows, debt relief and diversification of African economies;
20.
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 mid-term review of its implementation in 1996;
21.
Recalls its resolution 48/214, in paragraph 10 of which it invited
the Secretary-General to reinforce the capabilities of the Office of the
Special Coordinator for Africa and the Least Developed Countries of the
Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development of the
Secretariat 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;
22.
Takes note with satisfaction of the recommendations of the meeting
between the secretariats of the Organization of African Unity and the United
Nations held at Addis Ababa from 6 to 9 November 1995, and endorses the
convening of a meeting in 1996, at Addis Ababa, to review and evaluate the
progress made in the implementation of the recommendations agreed at the
November meeting and to adopt new and effective joint action;
23.
Calls upon the relevant organs of the United Nations system to
ensure the effective, fair and equitable representation of Africa at senior
and policy levels at their respective headquarters and in their regional field
operations;
24.
Requests the relevant organs of the United Nations system to
assist the Organization of African Unity to strengthen its capacity for
information gathering, analysis and dissemination through the training of
personnel and the mobilization of technical and financial assistance;
25.
Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly
at its fifty-first session on the implementation of the present resolution and
on the development of cooperation between the Organization of African Unity
and the organizations of the United Nations system.
97th plenary meeting
21 December 1995
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