Resolution on Comoro Islands


CM/Res.352 (XXIII)



RESOLUTION ON COMORO ISLANDS



The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity, meeting in its Twenty Third Ordinary Session in Mogadiscio, Somalia, from 6 – 11 June, 1974,


HAVING CONSIDERED the part of the Administrative Secretary General’s report on the developments of the situation in the territories under colonial and racist domination,


RECALLING the determination and commitment of the independent African States to free all the territories under colonial domination and the Declaration on the granting of independence to colonial peoples and countries, contained in UN General Assembly Resolution 1514 (XV) of 14 December, 1960,


AWARE of the responsibility of the Organization of African Unity to give its full moral and material support to the people o the Comoro Islands in their efforts to shake off the colonial yoke,


DEPLORING the refusal of the administering power to co-operate with the OAU and UN to speed up the process of accession to independence by the people of the Comoro Islands,


  1. REITERATES the inalienable rights of the people of Comoro Islands to self- determination and independence in conformity with UN General Assembly Resolution 1415 (XV);


  1. CONFIRMS its previous resolutions on the Comoro Islands;

  1. STRONGLY REAFFIRMS the political unity and territorial integrity of the Comoro Islands and condemns and measure which might be prejudicial to the unity and territorial integrity of Comoro;


  1. RECOMMENDS that OAU Member States give the necessary instructions to their representatives in the United Nations to do everything possible to ensure the speedy implementation of resolution A/9417 on Comoro Islands adopted by the 28th Session of the United Nations General Assembly;


  1. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary General to contact OAU Member States immediately with a view to obtaining scholar-ships for the training of Cadres of the Comoro Island’s Liberation Movement;


  1. REQUESTS the Administrative Secretary General to follow closely the developments of the situation in the Comoro Islands and report to the Organization when the need arises.

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