CM/Res. 565(XXIX)
RESOLUTION ON THE SECOND CONFERENCE OF AFRICAN MINISTERS OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity meeting in its Twenty - Ninth Ordinary Session in Libreville, Gabon, from 23 rd June to 3 July, 1977
Recalling its resolution CM/502 (XXVIII),
Having carefully examined documents CM/822 (XXIX) on the Second Conference of African Ministers of Social Affairs and Cm/822 (XXIX) Add. 1,
ENDORSES the resolutions adopted by the Second Conference of African Ministers of Social Affairs held in Alexandria-Egypt from 10 – 14 January, 1977;
COMMENDS the active participation of the African Governments to the Second conference of African Ministers of Social Affairs, as well as the co -operation which OAU, ECA and ASWEA developed for the preparation of the Conference;
REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General of the OAU, in close collaboration with the Executive Secretary of the ECA, to implement the resolution adopted by the Second Conference of African Minister of Social Affairs;
FURTHER REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General of the OAU to work out, in co-operation with the Executive Secretary of the ECA, the necessary budgetary arrangements for convening the Third Conference of African Ministers of Social Affairs in 1979
URGES all OAU and ECA Member States to take the necessary steps to accede as soon as possible to the agreement establishing the Regional Centre for Applied Research and Training in Social Development through their national constitutional procedures, and to pay annual contributions to the budget of the Cent re according to the OAU Scale of Assessment.