Report of the twelfth meeting of the Inter-Agency Co-ordinating Committee (IACC) on the Second United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa (UNTACDA) : Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 14-17 March 1989

Abstract

The twelfth Meeting of the Inter-Agency Co-ordinating Committee on the second United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa was held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 14 to 17 March 1989. The meeting was opened by the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Professor Adebayo Adedeji, who was also chairman. In his opening statement Professor Adedeji recalled that the first United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa had started without precedent and had thus called for a great deal of innovation. Indeed, the IACC had been created without any mandate. The Committee, however, had ten years experience and it ought to build upon that but not replicate or routinize the first Decade. The meeting that the challenge facing Africa during UNTACDA II was greater than had been the case at the time of launching UNTACDA I.