Developed Countries and, finally,
(d) The eighth meeting of the Conference of Ministers of the Economic Commission for Africa,
98/ See chapter III, section C, paragraphs 159 and l60 above.
Conscious of the fact that the superb facilities and the diverse and mani fold services afforded by the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for holding the above-^mentioned meetings at Tripoli have provided a momentous opportunity to the legislative organs of the Commission to consider various aspects of the economic and social conditions of Africa and to propose measures for accelerating the harmonious socio-economic development of the continent,
Noting with deep appreciation the eloquent and inspiring address of H.E.
Major Abdelsalem Ahmed Jalloud, particularly his full awareness and judicious analysis of the economic and social problems which retard the accelerated
development and economic growth of African countries and the achievement of the goals and objectives of the Lagos Plan of Action,
1. Expresses its deep gratitude to H.E, Colonel Muammar Al Gadhafi,
Leader of the Great and Glorious El Fatah Revolution as well as to the valiant
and militant people of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for their warm and fraternal hospitality and for the physical and all other facilities generously provided for the meetings and their participants;
2« Requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for
Africa to transmit the present resolution to the Leader of the Great and Glorious El Fatah Revolution, a worthy son of Africa's struggle.
222nd meeting.
30 April 1982.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED 3Y THE SEVENTH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION AND THE EIGHTH MEETING OF
THE CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS
1. Draft resolution B - Conference of Ministers resolution 431 Q'VII): Demographic data collection and analysis
In taking note of the report of the second session of the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians and Demo graphers and noting, in particular, the decreasing shares of assistance being made available by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities and other multilateral donor agencies, as
well as all bilateral donors , to States members of the Commission
and to the Commission itself for demographic data collection,
processing, evaluation, analysis and dissemination, the Commission drew the attention of the United Nations Fund for Population
Activities to the priority which African nations accord to demographic data collection and analysis within their over-all population programmes and appealed to the General Assembly to allocate the necessary infrastructure posts to the Economic
Commission for Africa to enable it to meet its increased responsi bilities in the field of population.
Since the Executive Director of UNFPA has informed the
Executive Secretary that infrastructure support to the Commission will be discontinued, as soon as possible, taking due account of the ability to absorb the posts UNFPA has been funding, the following are the financial requirements for funding three pro fessional and two general service posts from the regular budget in 1983 In line with the Commission's appeal to the General Assembly.
The professional posts concerned are that of the Director of Division (D-l), Chief, Planning and Policies Section (P-5) and Chief, Fertility and Mortality studies (P-5).
United States dollars
Established posts C1 D~1> ? F"5) 174,600
Common staff costs 87,400
Travel 10,000
Supplies and materials 5,000
Total 277,000
2. Conference of Ministers resolution 435 (XVII) . United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa
In reviewing the progress made so far in the implementation of the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa, the Conference recalled its decisions of April 1981 to organize four consultative technical meetings and noted with satisfaction that three of the four meetings had been held, with the fourth to take place from 3 to 5 May 1982 in Abidjan, the Ivory Coast. In recognizing, however 3 that none of these con sultative technical meetings covers the countries of North and East Africa as well as the island countries of the Indian Ocean, the Conference has accordingly recommended that a fifth
consultative technical meeting be organized during the second half of 1983 on roads, maritime transport and ports for those regions and has called upon the Secretary-General to provide the Commission with the necessary resources to finance this meeting. The
financial implications for the holding of this meeting in 1933
a r e :
United States dollars
Preparation of documents (including
translation and reproduction) 54,500
Preparation of the meeting 63,000
In-session costs (interpretation,
travel of staff, etc.) 67,000
Total i§^500
3. Conference of Ministers resolution 442 (XVII). Formulation and implementation of a programme for the Industrial Development
Decade in Africa
This resolution, inter alia, requests the Secretary-General to make available, In accordance with the relevant resolutions on the Decade, the resources required to strengthen the secretariats of
the Commission and the United Nations Industrial Development
Organization to enable them to play their expected roles in assisting member countries to implement the Decade Programme.
An assessment of ECA's requirements reveals a need for staff Increases of at least three professional and two general service posts. Furthermore, regular budget allocations of at least
$US 100,000 would be needed to cover travel costs; $US 200,000 for
consultants. The total financial implications are provided below:
United States dollars
Established posts (1 P-5, 1 P-4,