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A/RES/35/66 B 



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General Assembly

Distr: General
5 December 1980
Original: English

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Thirty-fifth session
Agenda item 61 d

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

35/66 B. Industrial Development Decade for Africa

The General Assembly,

Recalling resolution 51 (XIV) adopted by the Industrial Development Board at its fourteenth session on 19 May 1980,

Noting Economic and Social Council resolution 1980/46 of 23 July 1980 on the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa,

Noting also the decisions adopted by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity at its second extraordinary session held at Lagos on 28 and 29 April 1980,/86 and by the Council of Ministers of that organization at its thirty-fifth ordinary session, held at Freetown from 18 to 28 June 1980,/87 to take appropriate measures to implement the Monrovia Strategy for the Economic Development of Africa,/88

1.Proclaims the 1980s as the Industrial Development Decade for Africa;

2.Calls upon the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Economic Commission for Africa, in close co-operation with the Organization of African Unity, to formulate proposals to implement the programme for the Industrial Development Decade for Africa and to monitor its progress;

3.Supports the establishment of a co-ordination unit or group within the United Nations Industrial Development Organization for the Industrial Development Decade for Africa and requests the Secretary-General to provide appropriate resources to enable that organization to perform its role in the preparation and implementation of the activities of the Decade;

4.Requests the Executive Director of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to initiate appropriate contacts with the organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in order to contribute to the success of the Industrial Development Decade for Africa and to report on the action taken, through the Industrial Development Board, at its fifteenth session, and the Economic and Social Council, at its second regular session of 1981, to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session.

83rd plenary meeting
5 December 1980




Notes

86/ See A/S-11/14.

87/ See A/35/463 and Corr.1, annex 1.

88/ See A/34/552, annex I, resolution CM/Res.722 (XXXIII)