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C.· MEETING OF SUBSIDIARY BODIES OF THE COMMISSION

Pursuant to the provisions of the Commission resolution l28(VII) meetings of two working parties were convened during the period under review.

The secretariat convened the second session of the Working Party on Manpower and Training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 28 October to 1 November 1968. The meeting dealt with prevailing shcrtage cf both middle and high level trained manpower, the growing dependence On foreign skills at these levels in-African countries, and the need to formulate and adopt specific action programmes to alleviate problems of skill shortage an~ unemployment • . The Working Party also reviewed action taken on relevant resolutions of the

Commission and made proposals for the coming qUinquennium in the field of human resources development and utilization.

The third session of the ECA Working Party on Intra-African Trade was convened jointly with the OAU Expert Committee on Trade and Development in Geneva from 13-17 January 1969. The purpose of the meeting was to assist member States to find common and considered positions on the various issues to be discussed or negotiated in the coming months within UNCTAD following the New Delhi Conference.

The other subsidiary bodies of the Commission - the Conference of African Planners and the Conference of African Statisticians ~ having met in 1967 did not meet in 1968.