Transport and Communications Decade in Africa

A/RES/39/230View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1985.

What other versions does this mandate have?

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

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Africa Communications International Decades Programme Implementation Regional Cooperation Transport Infrastructure

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10 operative paragraphs

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Reaffirms its resolution 38/150 on the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa and calls for its immediate and effective implementation;

Endorses the programme for the second phase of the Transport and Communications Decade in Africa approved by the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa in its resolution 487 (XIX);

Notes the financial support provided by the Secretary-General and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to the Economic Commission for Africa for the preparation of the programme for the second phase of the Decade and for the continued operations of the Decade Co-ordination Unit;

Invites all Governments, particularly those of the developed countries, and international financial institutions to increase substantially their financial support for the programme for the second phase of the Decade and to accord particular attention to the financing and implementation of transport and communications projects of the land-locked countries, to participate fully and positively in the scheduled technical consultative meetings and to provide financial and technical resources on liberal terms to African countries for the implementation of the programme for the second phase of the Decade;

Appeals to the international community and international financial institutions to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with experts for short terms who would carry out specialized activities in the programme for the Decade. including the preparation of project documents;

Appeals also to the United Nations Development Programme to continue to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with funds during the next programming cycle;

Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with adequate financial resources from the regular budget of the United Nations to enable it:

To fully implement the activities previously mandated in paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution 38/ 150;

To ensure the preparation of relevant financial and technical documents of selected projects for the programme for the second phase of the Decade;

To ensure prompt follow-up on interest expressed bv Governments and international financial institutions, d~ring technical consultative meetings, in financing Decade projects;

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Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure the implementation of the present resolution and to submit to the General Assembly at its fortieth session a report on the progress achieved in the implementation of the Decade programme.

!04th plenary meeting

18 December 1984

200 See also sect. X.B.4, decision 391445, parns. (/•) and (cl.

204 See the repon of the Conference of African Ministers of Transpon, 201 A/S-11/14, annex I.

< ·ommunications and Plannmg on the work of its founh session (E/ECA/ 202 Ibid annex II CM.10/22). 203 See Official Re~ords ofthe Econom1, and Sooal Council, /984, Supple- ,n, A/39/27 1-E. 19841 q8_ ·'116 A/CONF.90119. ment No. 1/ (E/1984/21). chap. IV ,'I 'Al 191376.

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