Meeting of intergovernmental experts on transport and communications

Abstract

The purpose of this meeting is to review progress that has been made in the implementation of the UNTACDA II programme, mid-way through the duration of the Decade and where appropriate, to charter new directions for the future implementation during the remainder of the period. Notwithstanding the fact that it is midway through the Decade programme, the general feeling is that more process should have been made in the programme implementation. There is therefore urgent need to redouble effort to achieve rapid development of the transport and communications sectors in Africa, so as to enable the acbievem&nt of the principal objectives of the Abuja Treaty on the African Economic Community, which came into effect last year.