Resolution on Convention on International Multimodal Transport

CM/RES 523 (XXVII)

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RESOLUTION ON CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Twenty- Seventh Ordinary Session at Port Louis, Mauritius, from 24 June to 3^rd July, 1976.

Having heard the report of the Administrative Secretary-General of OAU on Miltimodal Transport, (Document CM/758 XXVII);

Noting that the African countries and in particular those who are land-locked are still concerned about the effects on their economies of combined haulage of goods;

Recalling resolution E/CONF. 59/39 Add. 3 adopted by the UN/IMCO conference on International Container Traffic, with particular reference to paragraph 9 (a);

Recalling further the recommendation of the African Ministerial Conference of Trade, Development and Monetary Problems that took place in Abidjan (9 – 13 May 1973), especially those related to Maritime Transport;

Recalling further the recommendations of the Conference of West African Ministers of Transport that took place in Abidjan in June 1975;

Recalling further the decision of the council of Ministers meeting in its 23^rd Ordinary Session in Mogadishu, Somalia, from 6 to 11 June 1974, as adopted in Document CM/Res. 365 (XXIII),

1. CALLS ON the Administrative Secretary-General of the OAU in collaboration with the Executive Secretary of the ECA to convene the Ad Hoc Committee of African Experts on Multimodal Transport of Goods between now and December 1976, to enable the African Group at the next IPG Session scheduled for January 1977, to have an African brief on a possible international convention on Multimodal transport;