Report of the African regional meeting of the United Nations conference on science and technology for development

Abstract

The purpose of the conference was to seek more effective means of applying science and technology and to work out a united African stand to be taken at the forthcoming United Nations conference on science and technology for development on behalf of Africa as whole. The present era was one of individual, collective and national unrest and ambition owing to the increasing and interlinked socio-economic problems besetting the developing countries. Those problems could be solved by means of science and technology, which most of the developing countries lacked. Their inadequacies in that regard were responsible for the gulf which now lay between the industrialized and rich societies and the developing societies. In conclusion it recommended the African support of the Egyptian peace initiative and considered the obvious willingness of African countries to defend the principles of justice and peace to be one of the main, measures of the success of the African people in their quest for progress and collective development.