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UNITED·' NATIONS REGIONAL CARTOGRAPtlIC CONFERENCE 'FOR AFRICA
Nairobi (I\:eWa),1-13 July 1963 Provisional agenda items' 8 and 11
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INTERNA±!ONAL CO-oPERA1.'ION ON CARTOGRAPHY - REGIONALPRO,1ECTS , .'
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IN1'ER.NA'l'IONA:E"CO-OPERATION ON CAETOGRAPHY REGIONAL PROJECTS (Note by the seoretariat)
At its fifth session held in LeopoldVille .frOlD 18 February to
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tion of the report of the Working Party of the WAole of the ~tanding
Committee On Industry and Natural Resources!( decided to ;nolude in ECA continued projects and actiVities of high priority a task defined in the following terms:
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"Preparation, in co-ordina tion viith UNESCO and other specialized agencies concerned, for the setting up of a regional centre for the interpretation of aerial surveys, and another for training in photogrammetry and airborne geophysical prospecting."2. In. View of the need expressed by many developing countries for train- ing competent technical personnel in various branches of modern surveying and mapping to strengthen and--·developthe capabilityof __their resPElctive nat10nal oartographic serVices, and in View of the wide application of the above-mentioned cartographio tEichn:l.~ues, not only
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the study and exploita- tion of natural resouroes but also in other economic and social projeots, such as urban and rural development, land resettlement, road and railroad construction, air and nautioal naVigation improvement, agrioultural develop- ment eto., the Conference may wish to consider the proposed regional projects in the light of information brought forward by participants on eXistingfacilities in the continent and on immediate and long-range requirements of such training.
E/CN.14/192.
Annual report of the Economic Commission for Afrioa to the Economio and Social Council, covering the period 4 March 1962 to 2 March 1963 inolusive: Project 23-01, paragraph (i).
