CM/Res. 106(IX)
RESOLUTION ON THE CANDIDATURE OF SOMALIA FOR THE SECURITY COUNCIL
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Ninth Ordinary Session in Kinshasa, Congo, from 4 to 10 September 1967,
Having been informed by the statement of the Government of the Republic of Somalia of its country’s candidature for the seat that will be left vacant by Ethiopia on the expiry of its term of office on the Security Council at the end of the year 1968;
Taking into account the determination of Member States to strengthen their solidarity and present a united front in support of the candidatures for the various international agencies;
EXPRESSES its gratitude to the Imperial Ethiopian Government for its welcome initiative;
RECOMMENDS that the Ethiopian proposal, as complemented by the debate, which extended the scope of the subject to cover the whole body of inter-African co-operation in legal matters, be transmitted, with all other proposals relating to this question, to Member States at the close of the present session;
INVITES the Member States to proceed to make an urgent study of these various proposals and to convey their observations and suggestions to the General Secretariat;
ENTRUSTS the General Secretariat with the tasks of compiling the observations and suggestions, and of communicating them again to Member States, which are requested to convey their opinions to the General Secretariat before the end of June 1968;
FINALLY CHARGES the Administrative Secretary-General with making a report synthesizing the various opinions of the Member States of this Assembly to the Council of Ministers prior tot he next Assembly of the Heads of State and Government.