Resolution on the Second All-Africa Trade Fair


CM/Res. 443 (XXV)


RESOLUTION ON THE SECOND ALL-AFRICA TRADE FAIR


The Council of Ministers of the OAU Meeting in its Twenty-Fifth Ordinary Session at Kampala, Uganda from 18th to 25th July 1975,


Recalling its resolution CM/Res. 277 (XIX), in particular operative paragraph 3,



Having considered the report on the Second All-Africa Trade Fair (CM/680),



Appreciative of the laudable efforts of the Government of Algeria in its preparations for the successful staging of the Second All-Africa Trade Fair,


  1. DECIDES that the Second All-Africa Trade Fair will be staged in Algiers from 27 August to 12 September 1976


  1. TAKES NOTE of document CM/680,



  1. SETS UP an Organizing Committee of Tem composed of Algeria, Kenya, Zaire, Cameroon, Egypt, Tunisia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Liberia and Senegal.


The terms of reference of this Committee will be to ascertain:



    1. the exact number of participating countries;



    1. the allocation of and charges for space;



    1. the number of foreign and local visitors to the Fair;



    1. an estimate of Fair earnings;



    1. an assessment of overall financial outlay and respective contributions of the host Government and the OAU Secretariat; and

    1. Organization and Character of a Symposium on ‘the promotion of Intra-Africa Trade’ to be convened concurrently with the Fair;


  1. DECIDES further that the Organizing Committee shall meet as soon as possible, and at any rate before December 1975, with a view to, inter-alia, estimating the financial contributions of the OAU towards the successful staging of the Fair and to Submit these estimates to the Advisory Committee on financial and budgetary Matters and thereafter to the Twenty-Six Ordinary Session of the council.

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