Progress report on the preparation for the second industrial development decade for Africa (1991- 2000)

Abstract

The United Nations General Assembly adopted at its Forty-Fourth Session, resolution 44/237 of 22 December 1989 proclaiming the period 1991-2000 the second Industrial Development Decade for Africa. The present report is submitted in accordance with paragraph 4 of the resolution which "requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations., in consultation with the Director-General of' the United Nations industrial Development Organization, the Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity, the relevant subregional and regional economic groupings in Africa and the United Nations bodies concerned, to undertake the necessary preparations for the second Industrial Development Decade for Africa and to submit, through the Economic and Social Council, a report on those preparations to the General Assembly at its Forty-Fifth Session".