Resolution on Technical Assistance to the Cape Verde Islands

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · African Union (AU)
Citation
CM/Res.387 (XXIV)
Regional Body / Author
Executive Council of the African Union
Date
21 February 1975
Language
English
Type
Generic Document

CM/Res. 395 (XXIV) CM/Res.387 (XXIV)



RESOLUTION ON TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS


The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its 24th Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, from 13 to 21 February 1975,


Having heard the statement by the representative of Guinea Bissau on the famine in the Cape Verde Islands,


Considering the urgent need for aid to the Cape Verde Islands;



  1. DECIDES to grant to the Cape Verde Islands immediate financial assistance amounting to +- 25,000 to be taken from the funds of the Co-ordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa;


  1. REQUESTS Member States which have not yet done so, to kindly pay their contributions to the Special fund for Assistance to Guinea-Bissau, in conformity with the relevant resolutions of the Twenty Third and Twenty Fourth Sessions of the Council of Ministers;


  1. APPEALS to Member States to grant, at bilateral level, accrued financial, material, food, health and other assistance to the Republic of Guinea-Bissau so as to enable it cope with the famine prevailing in the Cape Verde Islands and, as far as possible, before 30 June 1975;


  1. INVITES the Co-ordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa in close co- operation with the high parties concerned, to submit to the next session of the counc il a report on the new orientation needed and the actions capable for reinforcing the work of national reconstruction undertaken by the newly independent states or by those states which are about to become independent.

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