UNITED NATIONS
ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL COUNCIL
Distr.
GENERAL
23 March 1967 Original: ENGLISH
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Eighth session
Lagos, 13-25 February 1967
AIR TRANSPORT
Resolution 159(VIII) adopted by the Commission at its 139th plenary meeting
on 24 February 1967
The Economic Commission for Africa,
Recalling recommendation 3 of the African Air Transport Conference held at Addis Ababa in November 19^4j requesting the Commission and ICAO, to make, in consultation with OAU, the necessary arrangements for the establishment of an African civil aviation organization.
Noting that the Commission and the Organization of African Unity on the one hand and ICAO on the other have circulated drafts to member States for the formation of this organization,
1" Calls on the secretariats of the Commission, OAU and ICAO to agree on one text for circulation to member States;
2- Requests the Executive Secretary and the President of ICAO in co-operation with the Administrative Secretary-General of OAU, to call a meeting for the formation and establishment of this organization.
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