CM/Res. 129(IX)
RESOLUTION ON LABOUR
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 considered the Report of the Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity on the work of the Sixth Session of African Labour Ministers Conference and also on that the African Group at the Fifty -first International Labour Conference (Document CM/168 Part 8));
Referring more particularly to the resolutions of the Sixth Conference of African Labour Ministers on the relations between this conference and the Organization of African Unity, as well as on the importance of choosing African Nationals to represent the governments, employers and workers within the delegation from the African States to the International Labour Conference (CM/168 (Part 8));
Recalling also the various resolutions of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government (Cairo, July 1964, Accra, October 1965) and also of the Council of Ministers (Lagos, February 1964) on the necessity for the unification of African trade unions;
INVITES the Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity to service the Conference of African Labour Ministers in the following manner:
By sending out invitations to attend the Conference,
By preparing, if necessary, and distributing documents in connection with the Agenda,
By co-ordinating the activities of the Conference, it being understood that the expenses incurred in connection with the above-mentioned points, as well as by the physical organization of the Conference, will be at the expense of the host government;
CHARGES the Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity to co-operate with the Acting Secretary of the Conference with a view to establishing rapidly rules of procedure for use by this Conference;
RECOMMENDS to the Member States of the Organization of African Unity that they choose African nationals to represent their governments, employers and workers within their delegations to the International Labour Conference;
DRAWS THE ATTENTION of Member States to the necessity for the African representatives of the International Labour Organization (governments, employers and workers) to present a united front with a view to defending African interests at the International Labour Conference;
URGENTLY CALLS UPON the Administrative Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity to continue his activities aimed at organizing, before 30th April 1968, a meeting for the unification of the African trade union movement;
APPEALS to the government of the Member States to lend their assistance in the preparation as well as in the holding of this meeting.