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7. Requests also the Executive Secretary to report to the Conference of Ministers every year on the African social situation and the support ECA
has provided to interested countries on the design of their programmes on social development.
251st meetina, 24 April 1987.
602 (XXII). Development of cartoqraphy and remote sensina services in Africa The Conference of Ministers,
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considered the report of the sixth United Nations Regional Conference for Africa, held in Addis Ababa from 10 to 17 November resolutions contained therein,
Mindful of the close affinity between cartography and remote sensing and the need for their integration and strengthening in order that the composite disciplines may be in the position to provide member States with essential geographic information, scientific data and maps needed for the development of their national economies,
Noting that there is great need to increase awareness of cartography and remote sensing as tools for the development of natural resources, control of desertification and protection of the environment so as to contribute valuable inputs into the measures for the rapid implementation of the Lagos Plan of Action and the Final Act of Lagos as well as Africals Priority Programme for Economic Recovery (APPER) and the United NatIons Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development (UN-PAAERD),
BearinQ in mind that United Nations Regional Cartographic Conferences for Africa provide the unique forum for discussing modern trends in the development of cartography and remote sensing for the rapid production of information and data for economic planning, and offer an invaluable opportunity for the exchange and cross-fertili~ation of ideas between African experts on the one hand and between them and t,eir foreign counterparts on the other,
1. Endorses the report of the sixth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa and the resolutions contained therein;
2. Reguests the Executive Secretary to convene the seventh United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa in 1989;
3. Requests the Executive Secretary to take appropriate measures towards the effective establishment of the African organization for cartography and remote sensing on the basis of the agreement reached between the African Remote Sensing Council and the African Association of Cartography at their joint meeting held in Kinshasa, Zaire, from 9 to 14 March 1987 and to submit a progress report to the Conference at its fourteenth meeting in 1988;
4. Urqes the Executive Secretary to continue to sustain his efforts towards:
Cal Better co-ordination of institutional cartographic and remote sensing activities in so far as they concern the attainment of standardized specifications for topographical maps in Africa and the establishment of a common geodetic datum for Africa;
(b) Supporting Africa's regional efforts to establish an African Standardization Gravity Net (ASGN) and a common geodetic datum for Africa;
(c) Taking measures to promote the science and technology of cartography and remote sensing through the organization of seminars and workshops on topics
relevant to Africa's economic development for the dissemination of information on the region's activities in these fields to the member States;
5. Uroes all member States to apply the Standardized Specifications for Africa (SSA) as endorsed by the sixth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Africa and to ensure that topographical maps series at the scale of 1:50,000 pUblished for their territories after 1988 conform to the SSA specification.
251st meetinq, 24 April 1987.
603 (XXII). Monitorinq the implementation of Action for African Economic
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Recovery and Proqramme for
Nations Proqramme Development. 1986-Economic Recoverv,
The Conference of Ministers,
Recallinq General Assembly resolution S-13/2 of 1 June 1986 on the United Nations Programme of Action for African Economic Recovery and Development, 1986-1990 (UN-PAAERD) in which, inter alia, all Governments are urged to take effective action for the rapid and full implementation of the Programme and the United Nations Secretary-General was requested to monitor the implementation process,
Recalling; also its resolution ES-2/4 of 15 October 1986 on the review and assessment of the Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly on the Critical Economic Situation in Africa, operative paragraph 11 of which requests the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to submit periodic reports to the Conference of Ministers on the status of and progress in the implementation of UN-PAAERD and Africa's Priority Programme for Economic Recovery, 1986-1990 (APPER),
Noting with appreciation that a majority of member States have completed the ECA 1986 questionnaire on the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER,
Having considered with satisfaction the results of EeAls preliminary survey on the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER,
Notinq with satisfaction that appreciable progress has been made by member States in the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER,
Cnnvinced of the need to update the information contained in the 1986 Survey on a yearly basis, including additional information on the impact of
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Morocco expressed reservation on this resolution.the various policy measures and reforms that have been adopted, and also of the need for member States to improve the flow of information, quantitatively as well as qualitatively, for monitoring their implementation of the UN-PAAERD and APPER,
1. Expresses its appreciation to the Executive Secretary of the Commission and his staff for the commendable effort in preparing a preliminary survey on the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER,
2. Stronqlv urqes member States that have not completed the 1986 questionnaire to do so as soon as possible, in any case not later than 15 May 1987, to enable the revised survey to serve as one of the inputs for the draft 1987 report of the United Nations Secretary-General to the forty-second session of the General Assembly on the implementation of the UN-PAAERD, as called for in resolution S-13/2 of 1 June 1986,
3.
for the required
Invites member States to create and/or strengthen the mechanisms collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of all information
for the monitoring of UN-PAAERD and APPER,
4. Urqes member States to complete the questionnaire to be sent out by ECA in 1987 and subsequent years on the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER by the stated deadlines,
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States plans;
Calls upon the Executive Secretary of the Commission to assist member to improve the flow of information for monitoring their development
6. Reauests the Executive Secretary to prepare a more comprehensive report on the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER in 1987 including an assessment of the contribution of the international community and submit i t to the twenty-third session of the Commission and fourteenth meeting of the Conference of Ministers:
7. Requests further the Administrator of UNDP to provide resources to the ECA secretariat to strengthen the secretariat' s capacity to monitor the implementation of UN-PAAERD and APPER at the national, SUbregional and regional levels.
251st meetinq, 24 April 1987.
604 (XXII). United Nations !ransport and Communications Decade in Africa
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The Conference of Ministers,
Recallinq its resolution 291 (XIII) of 29 February 1977, Economic and Social Council resolution 2097 (LXIII) of 29 July 1977 and General Assembly resolution 32/160 of 19 December 1977 proclaiming the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa,
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Referrina to its resolution 563 (XXI) of 19 April 1986 by which the Secretary-General was requested to provide the Economic Commission for Africa with resources to enable i t to organize co-financing meetings and carry out an in-depth evaluation of the Transport and Communications Decade programme,
Referrina also to the report
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of the Secretary-General of the United Nations on the Transport and Communi~ations Decade in Africa submitted to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1986 and to the General Assembly at its forty-first session,Taking note of the progress report
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on the implementation of the second phase Decade programme, the reportW
of the fifth meeting of the Conference of African Ministers of Transport, Communications and Planning referring to the rep0rt ~ of the first combined meeting of the Trans-African Highway Authorities and especially its resolution requesting the reactivation of the Trans-African Highways Bureau of the Economic Commission for Africa,Aopreciatina the efforts made by the Executive Secretary in mobilizing resources and securing international assistance for implementing the second phase Decade programme,
Aware individual one Bureau
of the ~inancial burden on African countries in Bureaux and particularly for many countries belonging and therefore subject to multiple contributions,
maintaining to more than
Convinced that a single Bureau would adequately serve the needs of African countries in intensifying and consolidating the efforts already made towards the rapid development of the trans-African highway network at a very low cost compared with individual Bureau for each Trans-African Highway Authority,
l. Reaffirms its resolution 563 (XXI) of 19 April 1986 on the United Nations Transport and Communications Decade in Africa;
2. Notes with satisfaction the actions taken by the Executive Secretary