Resolution on Africa's Candidature for the Post of Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organizations (UNIDO)

CM/Res.364 (XXIII)

RESOLUTION ON AFRICA’S CANDIDATURE FOR THE POST OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATIONS (UNIDO)

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 NOTED with regret, the resignation of Dr I.H. Abdel-Rahmane from the post of Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) for personal reasons, when the post becomes vacant in December 1974,

CONSIDER that the post of Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization consequently falls to Africa,

MINDFUL of the particular importance of the United Nations Body of Africa and all the developing countries as an irreplaceable operational instrument in the service of industrial development countries in general and Africa in particular,

RECALLING that the Twenty Second Session of the OAU Council of Ministers held in Kampala in April 1974 approves Algeria’s candidature for the post,

1. APPEALS to the Arab Republic of Egypt to prevail upon the present Executive Director Dr. Abdel-Rahmane to keep the post until he is replaced by Africa’s candidate;

2. REITERATES its support of Algeria’s candidature for the post of Executive Director UNIDO;