Resolution on the Activities of the STRC

CM/Res. 569(XXIX)

RESOLUTION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE STRC

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

Appreciative of the excellent work of the STRC in the field of scientific and technological cooperation in Africa;

Aware of the importance of the need for the application of Science and Technology to the economic development of OAU States;

Desirous of ensuring the accelerated transfer of techno logy for the improvement of the productive process in Africa;

1. WELCOMES the proposal that Industrial and Technological Research Institutes in Africa should be created for the pooling of human and material resources;

2. CALLS on UNIDO and other relevant international agencies to assist the Executive Secretariat of the OAU/STRC to give the Secretariat the capability to undertake effective coordination of the work of African Industrial Research and Technological Institutes;

3. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General to improve upon the present manpower of the Executive Secretariat to enable it carry on its existing valuable duties on grain development (JP.31), African Medicinal Plants (JP.27) Livestock Production and Disease Controls e.g. CBPP Campaign (JP.28 ) ( and Follow-up Measures of JP.15 in all OAU States);

4. APPEALS TO international donor agencies to assist the various research projects of the Executive Secretariat and in particular, the various training programmes;

5. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General to solicit the co-operation of UNIDO in the work of the Industrial and technological Institutes in Africa.