CM/Res. 166 (XI) ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AFRICAN CIVIL AVIATION ORGAN
The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Eleventh Ordinary Session in Algiers, Algeria, from 4 to 12 September 1968,
Recalling resolutions CM/Res.136 passed at the Ninth Ordinary Session of the council of Ministers in Kinshasa, regarding the establishment of an African Civil Aviation Organ,
Noting that the OAU, ECA and ICAO have agreed upon a draft statute and rules of procedure for the Organ envisaged,
Noting also that a constituent meeting to consider the establishment of that organ is scheduled to take place in Addis Ababa in January 1969,
REQUESTS the Secretary General of the OAU to take the necessary steps for convening the meeting;
URGES all Member States to participate fully in the meeting;
FURTHERMORE REQUESTS Member States to encourage their nationals to use African airlines and to urge African air transport companies to organize their lines so as to serve the principal capitals of the continent, and to improve the servicing of these lines.