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10.
Urges the United Nations to continue to support the Organization
of African Unity in its efforts to promote the peaceful settlement of disputes
and conflicts and peacefully to manage change in Africa;
11.
Urges all Member States and regional and international
organizations, in particular those of the United Nations system, as well as
non-governmental organizations, to provide the necessary and appropriate
economic, financial and technical assistance to refugees and displaced
persons, as well as to African countries of asylum, taking into account recent
disquieting developments in this respect;
12.
Commends the continued efforts of the Organization of African
Unity to promote multilateral cooperation and economic integration among
African States, and requests United Nations agencies to continue to support
those efforts;
13.
Stresses that the economic, technical and development assistance
provided to Africa by the organizations of the United Nations system must
continue, and emphasizes the current need for those organizations to accord
priority to Africa in this field;
14.
Urges the Secretary-General and Member States, regional and
international organizations, non-governmental organizations and relevant
agencies of the United Nations system to extend their support to the
establishment of the African Economic Community and to assist in economic
integration and cooperation;
15.
Requests the Secretary-General to continue to support the efforts
of the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity with a view to
holding sectoral meetings on the priority areas of cooperation, particularly
the establishment of the African Economic Community and the strengthening of
the African regional and subregional organizations;
16.
Requests the agencies of the United Nations system working in
Africa to include in their programme at the national and regional levels the
activities which will enhance regional cooperation in their respective areas
and to facilitate the realization of the objectives of the Treaty establishing
the African Economic Community;
17.
Calls upon United Nations agencies to make an effort to coordinate
their regional programmes in Africa in order to create inter-linkages among
them and to ensure harmonization of their programmes with those of the African
regional and subregional economic organizations;
18.
Emphasizes the urgency of the need to adopt appropriate measures
to ensure the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the
Development of Africa in the 1990s, 7/ in particular in the areas of resource
flows, debt relief and diversification of African economies;
19.
Calls upon the Secretary-General to work in close coordination and
cooperation with the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity,
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Resolution 46/151, annex, sect. II.
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