CM/Res. 89 (VII)
RESOLUTION ON THE PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS OF THE OAU
The Council of Ministers, meeting in its Seventh Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, from 31 October to 4 November 1966,
Considering resolution CM/Res. 60 instructing the Administrative Secretary-General to investigate and undertake any necessary preliminary negotiations regarding the construction of a building which would house the permanent headquarters of the OAU,
Considering its thanks and gratitude to His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, for this gracious offer of a site at Addis Ababa to be set aside for the erection of the proposed building, and for all the facilities extended to the General Secretariat for its temporary quarters:
DECIDES
To set up a joint commission consisting of five architects and engineers made available by five Member-States with instructions to make a technical study of the proposed building;
To set up a commission of five financial experts made available by five Member- States with instructions to undertake a budgetary study of the project for the purpose of determining the size of the project, bearing in mind the budgetary capacities of Member-States, and also methods of financing the project;
Pending the submission of the reports of these two commissions at the next Assembly of Heads of State and Government, the Administrative Secretary- General is authorized to complete the necessary formalities for accepting the site offered by His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Ethiopia.