Statement by Mr. R.K.A. Gardiner, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa

Abstract

This meeting is the fourth in the series of formal meetings convened by the Secretariat in implementation of resolution 142 (VII) adopted at the Commission's Nairobi Session calling for the setting up of an institutional framework for economic co-operation towards accelerating progress. The previous three meetings were respectively held in Lusaka in November I965 for the East African sub-region, in Brazzaville in May I966 for the Central African sub-region and in Tangiers in June 1966 for the North African sub-region.