Co-Operation Between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 29 Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity, published in 1979.

What other versions does this mandate have?

33 versions · 1966–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/48

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/48	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	2,168	49%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/218	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,136	36%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/94	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,725	47%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/91	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	1,696	65%Compare
1997	A/RES/52/20	Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity	2,139	90%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Apartheid Conferences Cooperation Between Organizations Economic Assistance Funds Pan-Africanism Technical Cooperation

What’s in this document?

15 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on co-operation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity and commends his efforts in strengthening such co-operation;

Notes with deep appreciation the increasing participation of the Organization of African Unity in the work of the United Nations and the specialized agencies and its constructive contribution to that work;

Commends the continued efforts of the Organization of African Unity to promote multilateral cooperation among African States and to find solutions to African problems of vital importance to the international community and takes note with satisfaction of the increased collaboration of various United Nations agencies in support of those efforts;

Reaffirms the determination of the United Nations, in co-operation with the Organization of African Unity, to intensify its efforts to eliminate colonialism, racial discrimination and apartheid in southern Africa;

Recognizes the importance of continued close association by the United Nations and the specialized agencies, where appropriate, with the efforts of the Organization of African Unity to promote social and economic development and to advance intra-African co-operation in this vital field;

Reaffirms the determination of the United Nations to work closely with the Organization of African Unity towards the establishment of the new international economic order in accordance with the resolutions adopted by the General Assembly;

Reiterates its appreciation to the Secretary- General for his efforts, on behalf of the international community, to organize and mobilize special economic assistance programmes to various African States experiencing grave economic difficulties due to abnormal political, humanitarian and geo-economic circumstances;

Calls upon all Member States, regional and international organizations and organizations of the United Nations system to give favourable consideration to those special economic assistance programmes and accord them full and generous support;

Requests the Secretary-General to keep the Organization of African Unity informed periodically of the response of the international community to those programmes and to co-ordinate efforts with any similar programmes initiated by the Organization of African Unity;

Requests the Secretary-General and the organizations within the United Nations system to ensure that adequate facilities continue to be made available for the provision of technical assistance to the General Secretariat of the Organization of African Unity as and when required;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take the necessary measures to strengthen co-operation at the political, economic, cultural and administrative levels between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly, particularly with regard to the provision of assistance to the victims of colonialism and apartheid in southern Africa, and, in this connexion, draws attention once again to the Assistance Fund for the Struggle against Colonialism and Apartheid established by the Organization of African Unity;

Calls upon the United Nations bodies, in particular the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Jndependence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, the Special Committee against Apartheid and the United Nations Council for Namibia, to continue to associate closely the Organization of African Unity with all their work concerning Africa;

Calls upon the United Nations Development Programme, in particular, to arrange for the meeting between the Organization of African Unity and the organizations within the United Nations system to be held in New York during the twenty-sixth session of the Governing Council of the Programme, in June 1979, and requests that the meeting deal with relations between the Organization of African Unity and the organizations within the United Nations system as well as assistance to liberation movements;

Reiterates its invitation to the specialized agencies and other organizations concerned within the United Nations system to continue and expand their co-operation with the Organization of African Unity and, through it, their assistance to the liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-fourth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution and on the development of co-operation between the Organization of African Unity and the organizations

concerned within the United Nations system.

II, Resolutions adopted without reference to a Main Committee

tn Ibid., Thirty-third Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/33/35 20 Ibid., Thirty-third Scss1·io11, Plenary Mectini:s, 59th meeting, par::s. 73-112.

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