Transport and Communications Decade in Africa

A/RES/32/160View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1978.

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9 versions · 1978–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/179

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/179	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	165	12%Compare
1985	A/RES/39/230	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	645	—
1984	A/RES/38/150	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	—	—
1983	A/RES/37/140	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	1,062	29%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/177	Transport and Communications Decade in Africa	1,179	22%Compare

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6 subjects

Africa Communications International Decades International Years Resources Mobilization Transport

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7 operative paragraphs

Endorses the recommendation madc in paragraph 1 of resolution 291 (XIII) of the Economic Commission for Africa75 and proclaims a Transport and Com-

Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 7 (E/5941 ), part III.

76See A/31/478/Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.l. munications Decade in Africa during the years I 978- 1988, with a view to:

Giving active support to the preparation and implementation of a global strategy for the development of transport and communications in Africa, for the purposc of solving thc problcms of the continent in this field;

( h) Mobilizing the tcchnical and financia! resources requircd for this purposc;

Decides that, in accordance with its rcsolution 31/93 of 14 December 1976, the mobilization of the neccssary financia! and technical rcsources required to make the Decade a success constitutcs a prcssing necd of an unforeseeable nature;

Requests the Sccretary-GeneraL in co-operation with thc executive hcads of the agencies concerned, to providc ali possiblc assistance to the African States in thc prcparation of a detailed plan of action for the Decade and to co-ordinate the mobilization of the neccssary tcchnical and financia! rcsources requircd to make the Decade a success;

Calls upan ali Membcr States, in particular the developed countries and others in a position to do so, to participate effectively in the implementation of programmcs for achieving thc objectives of the Decadc;

Requests the Secretary-Gcneral, in consultation 5. with thc International Telecommunication Union and othcr specialized agencies concerned, to propase for consideration, as appropriate, one year during the Decadc as a World Communications Year, in vicw of the importance of transport and communications to other rcgions of the world, and to submit a report to the Economic and Social Council at its sixty-fifth scssion containing a dctailcd programme of mcasures and activities to be carricd out during such a Y car;

Furthcr requests the Secretary-Gencral to submit to thc General Assembly at its thirty-third session, through thc Economic and Social Council at its sixtyfifth session, a dctailed progress report on the implementation of thc prcsent resolution and to submit thereafkr annual progrcss rcports.

107th plenary meetinR

19 December 1977

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Permanent sovercignty over national resources in the oc,·upied Arah territories

77 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Tlze Hague 75 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,

Conventions and Declarations 1899-1907 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1915), p. 100.

7 8 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 75, No. 973, p. 287.

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