Resolution on the Draft African Convention on Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

CM/Res. 145 (X)

RESOLUTION ON THE DRAFT AFRICAN

CONVENTION ON CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Tenth Ordinary Session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 20 to 24 February 1968,

Aware that by resolution CM/Res. 118 (IX) adopted in Kinshasa in September 1967 a committee was set up to amend the draft African Convention of Nature and Natural Resources, copies of which had been circulated to member States;

Having examined the report of that Committee, including the amended draft Convention:

1. TAKES NOTE of the amended draft African Convention on Nature and Natural Resources prepared by that Committee of Experts;

2. REQUESTS:

1. each Member State present to secure copies of the amended draft Convention as contained in document CM/205 before leaving Addis Ababa at the end of the 10^th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers;

2. that the said document CM/205 be presented to their Government for final examination;

3. that States with any additional observations or comments should forward then to reach the General Secretariat in Addis Ababa, before 30 June 1968 and that such observations or comments be circulated for discussion in the next meeting of the Council of Ministers in September 1968;

4. that if no comments are received by 30 June 1968, the Administrative Secretary-General should prepare the convention for adopting by the