The Sixth Meeting of the United Nations Inter- Agency Task Force for African Economic Recovery and Development:|bOpening statment by the chairman Mr. K.Y Amoako, UN under-secretary general and executive secretary

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Opening Statment by the Chairman Mr. K.Y Amoako, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary, ECA at the Sixth Meeting of the United Nations Inter Agency Task Force for African Economic Recovery and Development. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, The 50th session of the General Assembly considered how to conduct the mid-term review of the implementation of UN-NADAF - the UN New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s. And recently the Secretary-General launched the UN System-wide Special Initiative on Africa. The idea of the Initiative was set in train when the High Level Segment of ECOSOC considered a report of the Secretary-General, to which all UN members had contributed. ECOSOC took note of the encouraging steps taken by many African countries to establish an environment conducive to development, and the several initiatives of the international community in support of Africa's efforts.