Activities undertaken after the conference of finance ministers on the establishment of the African Development Bank : a progress report

Abstract

At the first session of the Committee of Nine held in Khartoum at the beginning of August 1963, an immediate programme of work was proposed. This envisaged: (a) action to be taken by the secretariat to follow up the progress in the signing of the agreement and its subsequent ratification; (b) the collection of basic material for the preparation of drafts called for under paragraphs 1 (b) and (c) of resolution 3 (see Annex ); and (c) the consideration of technical assistance schemes called for under paragraph 1 (d) of the same resolution. The second session held in Addis Ababa focuses on the preparatory work for the establishment of the African Development Bank.