Draft programme of action for intra-African trade expansion

Abstract

This paper examines The Council of Ministers of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) at its thirty-third ordinary session held in Monrovia, Liberia, from 6 to 20 July 1979 endorsed resolution/33.2(XIlV) adopted by the ECA Conference of Ministers containing a strategy for the African region in the International Development Strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade. In endorsing the Strategy, the OAU Council of Ministers; called upon member States to use the recommendations of the African Development Strategy as the basis for the formulation of their national plans; and invited OAU, ECA and other regional and interregional organizations to give all necessary assistance to member States in the formulation and implementation of such plans.