Resolution on the Establishment of the Pan-African Telecommunications Union

Jurisdiction
African Regional Bodies · African Union (AU)
Citation
CM/Res.588 (XXIX)
Date
3 July 1977
Language
English
Type
Generic Document

CM/Res. 588 (XXIX)


RESOLUTION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PAN-AFRICAN TELECOMMINICATIONS UNION


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,


Having received the report of the Administrative Secretary-General contained in document CM/832 (XXIX) on the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the establishment of the Pan-African Telecommunications Union (PATU),


  1. EXPRESSES its appreciation to the Conference of Plenipotentiaries for elaborating a Convention and Rules of Procedure as a step towards the establishment of the PATU;


  1. REAFFIRMS its earlier decision contained in resolution CM/Res. 401 (XXIV) that the seat of the proposed Pan-African Telecommunications Union be sited in Kinshasa, the capital of the Republic of Zaire, which resolution was endorsed by the 12th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government at Kampala, in July 1975;


  1. AUTHORISES the Administrative Secretary-General to reconvene the Conference of Plenipotentiaries within six months after the 14 th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government as requested by the Government itself and requests the Advisory Committee on budgetary and Financial Matters to put at the disposal of the Administrative Secretary-General the necessary funds for reconvening the Conference;


  1. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary-General to circulate to the Member States well before reconvening the Conference, the Convention of the PATU, and the Rules of Procedure of the Conference, which were collaborated by the conference.

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