Speech at the opening of the silver jubilee annniversary celebrations of the Economic Commission for Africa

Abstract

Address by Dr. Alex I. Ekwueme, vice-president of the Federal Republic on Nigeria, on the occasion of ECA silver Jubilee anniversary celebrations. Dr. Ekwueme, on his remarks highlighted that the efforts of ECA in assisting the African countries in launching the Development Strategy for Africa in the context of the Third United Nations Development Decade and the Lagos Plan of Action are also noteworthy, It has been noted that the current situation is progressively depriving developing countries of the capacity to undertake the kind of adjustment required, and that it is instead, characterized by a process, that enforces the containment of external imbalances through sharply reduced economic growth. ECA in its own way should endeavor to step up the training of the African peoples especially in these areas in preparation for eventual nation building.